skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.aldaily.com/ Arts&Letters daily was a curated collection of links that introduced many to highbrow internet longform. Not sure how it does those days
Kinda misleading, because “pirates” can’t broadcast all over the world like UVB-76 does.
P2P Future Darkens as EDonkey Closes (2005)
You would need 6 zettabytes per second to even store all the hashes generated by the BTC network. That’s many times the world’s storage capacity generated every second.
This is an abomination I'd love and nurture. <3
> Even if true, I would expect cigarettes are dwarfed by cars --- but 6 trillion cigarettes a year isn’t nothing, right?

I don't really understand this reasoning - the way I see it any effect that's dwarfed by cars might as well be nothing, there's no sense worrying about a splinter in a broken leg.

> The CDC link does reference the Surgeon General’s report, which links to a whole pile of primary sources on secondhand smoke. You can also Google around for primary sources for links between smoking and general air pollution. I just tried and found a handful of papers studying outdoor smoke exposure levels, e.g., https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/48/3/918. The main consensus that I see is that for a range of small distances like 10-20 feet, outdoor exposure is plenty high enough to be very concerned about the risks, and that high traffic areas can collect smoke and increase exposure.

Hmm, sounds like there's a measurable impact which is honestly more than I expected. Still, it seems like a rather cherry-picked measurement; they compare levels in the evening when the traffic street is presumably mostly empty, and note that the traffic street had worse air quality after midnight. They notably don't compare levels in the morning or afternoon when traffic would actually be present and the traffic street presumably had overwhelmingly worse levels of pollution. And they jump straight to recommending a ban on smoking. To my mind to put that on any kind of rational basis you'd have to first set a safe level of PM25 and then propose banning the biggest contributors to PM25 on streets that exceeded it - but reading between the lines of that paper, I assume that once you measure PM25 over a full 24 hours that would mean banning cars long before banning smoking.
Funny, I'll bite
Ahhh for that problem, I am not sure! Best of luck!
> people arrive to be better, rather than pull the same old bullshit to protect profits

Of course not, batteries for electric cars, bikes etc. will be locked down as hard as possible and new ones will cost 2/3 of the new car price - sometimes replacement will not be available even from manufacturer which in effect will send perfectly good car to the junkyard - you can see this playbook in action right now with old Nissan Leaf.
I’ve actually done this 10 years ago with HTML canvas - resizing images on client side before upload, to save bandwidth and speed everything up: https://github.com/josefrichter/resize
It's just a matter of time before every organism on earth dies if humans do not bring them to other planets.

The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and by most estimates has only 0.6 billion years left before the sun's light is insufficient to sustain photosynthesis. Even if some life survives that, earth will eventually burn up as the sun expands.

Some catastrophic event, human-caused nuclear warfare, asteroid, bioweapon could easily destroy all intelligent life on earth. If that happens it is very unlikely intelligent life will have time to evolve before the earth is destroyed.

Why gamble on an event like that not happening given how close we've come? The universe is vast, why don't humans have a duty to protect life and bring it to other planets asap? It's so strange that environmentalists want to preserve natural life but steadfastly oppose colonizing other planets (the only way to actually preserve it).
I wish more people understood that markets include government regulation to ensure they operate in a competitive way. In a competitive market there must be so many buyers and sellers so that each has a negligible impact on the market price [1]. Obviously governments try to prevent monopolies to uphold this assumption. Regulation must also prevent market failures. Such failures occur with externalities. The most famous example being a factory that pollutes the environment thus producing negative health effects on people but incurring no cost for that damage without government intervention. Another example of a failure is information asymmetry (the doctor that recommends a procedure he knows you don't need but you trust him for his information) which is illegal.

My point is, markets do include government regulation. Academic debate is not centered on whether or not markets include government regulation by microeconomics definition. The debate is how much, where, when and how. If "free market" is defined as no government intervention, it is not an accepted practice and even conservative economists would not recommend it. I think there is a reason the term "free market" is not included in my microeconomics textbook. We look for a competitive market (described by the desired result), not a "free market" (described by the methods, not the result).

[1] Mankiw, Principle of Microeconomics 8th edition
When I looked into it some time ago, what tripped me up was that it seemed that you needed to deploy it using Docker. Otherwise, you'd have quite an involving set up process: install Ruby, Rails, then a database. Then you'd probably want to figure out a set up to enable https + SSL. I had it running locally and was quite impressed by it, but wasn't ready to go the full Dockerized route on a VPS at that time. Maybe now I would.. just need to find the time.

Personally, I think a project like Huginn would have more success if the code was in GoLang (easier to deploy) or Python (more popular language = people more willing to set it up) and used SqlLite for the backend. And if it had SSL/https baked in, out of the box. For comparison purposes, I distinctly remember how much I appreciated that Nextcloud had it baked in. So I ran NC very happily for quite a while and skipped out on Huginn.
Not sure why you're downvoted. Setting up VPN on my home router and using that VPN on my next travel will be the first thing I'll do prepping for a vacation. Using VPN is a right solution.

All the geo-IP nonsense is absolutely crazy, including these random login blocks and "security" checks. You also get UI reset to languages you don't understand, because no, websites can't use the language you set in your browser, they have to use some geo-IP nonsense to select a language (especially funny with IPv6). And there's no persistent switch if you use private mode, because they don't respect UA settings.
The $58 million settlement also requires Plaid to provide a way for users to delete their personal information from Plaid's servers:

> By creating a Plaid Portal account, users, including Class Members, can view and manage the connections between financial accounts and chosen applications made using Plaid, and delete data stored in Plaid's systems Currently, the website for Plaid Portal is my.plaid.com (see Question 15).

Link to Plaid Portal: https://my.plaid.com

Settlement FAQ: https://www.plaidsettlement.com/frequently-asked-questions.p...
Yip you are right I got that screwed up.
Python's .netrc library also hasn't supported comments correctly for like 5 years. The bug was reported, it was never fixed. If I want to use my .netrc file with Python programs, I have to remove all comments (that work with every other .netrc-using program).

It's 2022 and we can't even get a plaintext configuration format from 1980 right.
Synth looks cool but why can't it just be an extension?
> Notably all the whitelisted browsers are either theirs (Chrome) or sell them their search traffic.

OK but that also describes pretty much all the Web browsers the vast majority of Web users actually intend to use, right?
Part of the problem is consumers bought this increasingly cloud-based junk back when they had a choice.
There's also a comment here teaching the controls. Could you please upvote it so it goes to the top?
Does anyone have any info on who is behind this before I submit my e-mail address to a random website? It seems like it could be interesting in an advent of code style thing, but I'd like to make sure of what I'm signing up for...
Want to see just how bad Google Chrome is? Try this simple trick
The Joe Rogan podcast. Listening to long-form, multi-hour conversation is so refreshing compared to what traditional news shows have become.
To me, "common" means roughly 50% or more, with less than that being some degree of "rare."

1-in-20 I would definitely call rare.
> to people who are totally ignorant of common illnesses, health issues, or injuries.

Hundreds of thousands, no, potentially millions of people have decided to take hydrochloroquine and ivermectin as a treatment for Covid. The people who believe that they're in a position to dictate their own medical treatment are the ones who most often are "totally ignorant".

Yes, it's more expensive in isolation - in the best case scenario - to have someone competent see a doctor for a refill. But it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the rare case of someone saying "I have self-diagnosed as needing hydrochloroquine for my Covid" and then dying from an overdose after they passed out and their family took them to an expensive emergency room. Your experience is not universal.
Heat Pump Analysis
Fastmail has been extremely responsive to any random minor issues that have cropped up for me or the several people I got to transition to their service over the last 7 years.
Both of those things are worth zero when Deere can't supply enough technicians in the planting and harvest seasons to keep those tractors running.
> Free markets have a well established, well understood "tendency towards monopoly."

There is actually a lot of debate about what causes this.

The argument on one side is, of course companies unconstrained by laws would collude with each other to fix prices etc.

The argument on the other side is, as soon as they start doing this it becomes profitable for someone else to enter the market. Is the cartel charging $40 for something that should cost $20? Go around to all the customers and tell them you'll sell to them for $25 tomorrow if they agree to a long-term contract today to buy from you at that price. Then you have enough guaranteed customers to pay off your new factory, so you can build it without being bankrupted by the incumbents slashing prices. And because anyone can do this, the incumbents don't collude to charge $40 to begin with because they know they would invite it.

Under this theory, monopolies form because of regulatory capture. The large incumbents don't want to compete in a commodity market, so they pay off the government to erect barriers to entry. Then once no one new can enter the market, they can buy each other or collude or use conscious parallelism without risk of new competitors.

It seems to me that it's kind of both. Without the second one, companies would rarely if ever get big enough that no one could compete with them. But once they are, somebody's got to break them up.

Most importantly, we need to fix the regulatory environment so that it facilitates rather than impairs competition, or it will just happen again.
This is interesting. Most efficient? I think Spanish ought to be higher on the ranking.

- Spanish writing/reading is WYSIWYG. We write "Walk" but we read it as "wôk".
- Link to other romance languages. Communication with Portuguese, Italian, French, etc... albeit difficult, it's not impossible.
- Learning other romance languages. This one is interesting. Going from Spanish to Portuguese, Spanish to Italian, etc... is quite interesting since you find the connections between them really funny and insightful.

Caveats
- The same could be said for the other romance languages but they don't have WYSIWYG,
ie: Portuguese "vermelho" has the "lh" combo which add a soft i between "l" and "h", French "cuisine" omits the "e" when pronouncing the word, etc...
Tmux is a terminal emulator layer. It even has its own terminal type. (Well, shared by `screen`.)
The criticism isn't about the idea of spreading over multiple planets, it's at the idea that we need so many billions of people.

If we go back down to 5 billion [per planet], the same number of people we had in 1985, that's not a bad thing.

Edit: Okay, do people disagree with the first sentence or the second one?
Won every time after first 5 play sessions,
Just need to get the cannon two keystrokes up at 95-98ish % power , and cannon always just blows the robot using a near horizontal shoot.

Fun game tho !,
loved playing it
Indeed. If you are so concerned about memory usage that a 20MB app is so bothersome, why would you be running a 1+GB platform? The pi is the pi. No need to fret about optimizing down from 3% memory usage to 1%.
If your goal is actually solving the current popular Wordle implementation, its complete word list (allowed words and words that might actually be chosen) can be retrieved from the game source.

You can get them both here:

https://gist.github.com/cfreshman/a03ef2cba789d8cf00c08f767e...
https://gist.github.com/cfreshman/cdcdf777450c5b5301e439061d...
At Amazon, every 100ms of latency costed us 1% in sales
Another classic is his review of “North”

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/north-1994

I remember for the Friar’s Club roast of Rob Reiner one comedian just read that review.

“ I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stupid vacant audience-insulting moment of it. Hated the sensibility that thought anyone would like it. Hated the implied insult to the audience by its belief that anyone would be entertained by it.”
> It's just a matter of time before every organism on earth dies if humans do not bring them to other planets.

This sentence is equally true if you put a full stop after “dies” and delete everything following.
> To generalize and understand why, big corps have to deal with an insane amount of (often automated) abuse, so they build profiles using data collection to assess your risk level.

Total coincidence that it's also "you're not being a good little data source", I'm sure.

I use a privacy-oriented browser on my cell phone to load amazon's website to get that stupid whole foods QR code for the checkout, because I'm not installing their fucking app so it can collect more data on me.

Guess what? Every single time, I'm presented with a "we've emailed you a link" error, and that link is difficult to open in my preferred browser because iOS doesn't offer it as a choice for opening links...
Many people do actively want to end their family lines, and they have a right to decide to do that. I don't know about colonizing other planets, but hey, it's also a choice to try to go do that. I was born on the earth, and I'd prefer to have children, and myself die on this earth. Maybe if I have some descendents, some of them will end up living on other planets or in outer space. I don't know. It's hard to overstate how gargantuan of a move leaving the planet we started on is, the emotional impact of it plus the immense challenges it will bring.
On the upside, if it's almost a superset then a data producer can make sure it is polyglot by sticking to the intersection of the two.

C++ is not a strict superset of C, but the ability to include C headers is very valuable.
For what its worth I got three monarch caterpillars on my milkweed now. They seem to be still kicking around bay area. Certainly, as you said, not as many.
You can do this with a regular Gmail account. The kid just can’t log into it until they are 13 or older.

Google also now offers child Google accounts for kids under 13, which are limited and tied to a parent’s account through an app called Family Link. This is how you can set up a Chromebook for a kid, for example.

This limit of age 13 is not arbitrary by Google; it’s their way of complying with a U.S. federal law called COPPA.
I’ve made some edits to emphasise that I’m not against blockchain/crypto tech per se but that it’s the energy consumption of bitcoin in particular that concerns me. Thanks for all the feedback
This is why hard mode is a less interesting way to play.
Modern humans have been around only 200-300k years. Industrialization started 130 years ago or so.

Getting off the planet in the next 600 million years is a much, much smaller concern than how we can actually keep the species going in the immediate future. While, yes, at some point we need a 'plan B' to earth, the reality is we still first need a plan A; despite how far away we are from it, we are much closer to being able to maintain equilibrium on this planet than we are to colonizing another (and if we don't fix the first in a relatively short period, but somehow manage the second, we just doom two planets anyway).
I have never seen a db rollback. Once you get into prod you're capturing data. A roll ack could lose data. I've only seen forward migrations to fix issues.
It is very convenient when you need to generate YAML via text template which unfortunately appears to be something that our industry has decided is reasonable. You can do {{ someval | toJson }} and have reliable escaping. Way better than "{{ someval }}" or {{ someval | toJson | indent 13 }}
For me, ARISE and RAISE were equally good.
I'm curious why virtually all soda labels I know of went to a new better tasting "zero" branding at exactly the same time
Maybe I’m too young, but I have rarely ever seen a frog in the wild and birds have never seemed that abundant.
Also an established line of credit basically with the farm makes buying them easier than competitive offerings by other manufacturers. There’s still enormous cultural inertia with Deere.
Yeah, right? Instead of a guaranteed AI that would shoot you with 100% of accuracy you have an interesting enemy that gives you a chance...

Might have to implement the wall divining the players though
In Singapore CSA's forensics lab, officers dissecting cyberattacks use gadgets
I suppose, but then how would they detect a Chromium build with a keylogger?
> alleging the company’s proprietary tractor software is creating a monopoly that’s unfair to small farmers. (from the article)

The monopoly is in repairing their own goods, not on the tractor market. Usually the debate for right to repair includes the argument that repairing a good should be a competitive market on its own. The definition of the market is key (is it the tractor market or the repair of John Deer tractors market). If it's the first, debatable on the monopoly. If it's the second, clearly a monopoly.

I do recognize you were responding to the OP's claim that John Deer is a monopoly, not to the article's description of it. But I wanted to mention the article's description as related to right to repair.
except it seems it's not really the case? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30052685
Interesting - that’s never happened to me. I hadn’t ever heard this valid criticism. Perhaps exhaustion isn’t the right way to phrase it but a brisk walk almost always elevates my mood and frees my mind from the repetitive negative thought process cycle.
The next thirsty mouths will have fun finding their own water too.
Are you quoting from somewhere or is this bullet points? (I only know this bullet points style from 4chan so not sure if this might be a quote instead.)
The happy path is more important; it needs to be stated clearly and concisely, and reviewed and maintained more often. The error path is pretty much just “can we retry at some level, or just give up and tell the user nothing happened?” Even if you believe they are equally important, they are very different, and intermixing them makes each harder to follow.
He didn't review any Dragonball films (Wikipedia tells me there were about ten!) but here's his review of the first Spongebob movie. He thought it was pretty decent, 3 stars out of 4.

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-spongebob-squarepants...
That's extremely rude. How could he just barge into the doctor's office? A physical examination could be taking place.

In my experience at a specialized neurology practice: they wait outside until the doctor is free, then knock on the door and ask if they have a moment. They would almost always get straight to business, never wasted more than half a minute of people's time socializing.
Where do you live, a densely populated urban area? Inside Bladerunner?
Lisp in Production – Interview with Atlas, the Guys Behind Nyxt Browser
Where do you live? There is still wildlife in the midwest.
Moreover the implied consequence of the "equal complexity" thesis is that over time, were Esperanto to be more widely used as a mother tongue for a large population, it too would collect additional complexity as certain stylistic choices would start hardening into first idiomatic and non-idiomatic language patterns and then further into new grammatical and phonological rules.
Tested on python what? I was curious to see what error that produced, figuring it would be some whitespace due to the difference between the list items, but using the yamlized python that I had lying around, it did the sane thing:

PATH=$HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/ansible/libexec/bin:$PATH
pip list | grep -i yaml
python -V
python <<'DOIT'
from io import StringIO
import yaml
print(yaml.safe_load(StringIO(
'''
{
"list": [
{},
{}
]
}
''')))
DOIT

produces

PyYAML 6.0
Python 3.10.1
{'list': [{}, {}]}
> many, many men and women do not treat a significant other (on either side) as some kind of natural and impenetrable barrier to pursuing the object of their lust

If they'll cheat with you, they'll cheat on you.

I don't need that sort of complication or grief in my life. And I respect myself too much to be the sort of guy who cheats on his girlfriends, or the sort of guy who cheats with someone else's girlfriend. It's probably cost me some hookups, it has never cost me a relationship I'd regret, because who wants a relationship with that kind of person?

Having said that, I'd also never let someone having a SO be something that stops me from working at kindling a friendship. For me at least, while finding a "life partner/soul mate" is an extremely worthwhile objective, making good friends is a more important thing for me than hooking up with every available (or unavailable) woman possible. So I'll still pursue a friendship, just being rational enough to think with my head not my dick, and keep the "lust" in check.
Couldn’t agree more!

Explain the differences in the following to a new developer:

something - a regular variable

$something - just another regular variable with a fancy char

#something - now that’s a private variable

!something - this is… uhm… a regular variable cast to… eh… boolean, then inverted…

~something - type cast blah blah bit flipping magic

!!something - same as !something except inverted again, because using Boolean(something) is not 1337

//something - a comment

Yeah… personally, I much prefer the more explicit ways to write code. it’s cryptic enough as it is, why make it harder for your peers
Why not just use DarkReader? This is how my HN looks: https://i.imgur.com/nM3hZI3.png

This way, people can customize their dark mode how they want to with a GUI rather than needing a whole new way to do it via CSS.
The website it at: https://www.lrb.co.uk/

I see it's published twice a month. I also see that it has an RSS feed that doesn't seem to have an obvious link on the front page: https://lrb.co.uk/feeds/rss
Great idea.

pip install --user yaml

increases the chances it will work
Lately I've noticed that Google wants me to "open the youtube app on your phone" even though I've configured 2FA. This is a work account, I have no interest in associating it to the youtube app on my phone.

My own email is with fastmail. They do what they do particularly well and are worth it.
Well, for one, nonsense like this is why I set out to build a browser in the first place :) More generally, the user experience is, naturally, worlds apart from extensions.