skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
right - that's weird language. That said, machines are often under GPO / Mdm type control, and it is trivial if needed to monitor a machine if there is an OK (ie, not used to harass / flirt / spy) on someone.

Normally best practice is that someone outside of workgroup reviews results for a predefined concern (ie, slacking off, running a side business on company time, etc). This is just because you can end up with tons of personal details (ie, bank balances - wow they are rich / poor etc). With remote work I think this is less common / would be less acceptable. I have some light govt exposure and this was sometimes done to see if folks were browsing porn (ie, new firewall or something would start reporting adult site use and then they'd do something on the actual computer to see what was up) or slacking - partly because govt work didn't always have good productivity metrics to work against. More recently they just seem to block things like porn at work by default.
Not OP, but I find your questions interesting.

I find it intriguing that only in the digital age have we sort of decided that the creator of something doesn't get to dictate the terms of its use.

>3. What if you truly need to access a website but it has too many ads

At least for me, I assume that they created the necessary content and get to decide how it's made available. It seems like only in the digital age do we even consider "I don't like your terms so I'm taking the content anyway" an option.
I don't doubt what you're saying but could you source/expand on your claims?
It’s still an ICE vehicle being taken off the road. Good enough in many cases.
>None of the roads signs around me, or in of the areas I grew up in or lived in had wide scale bullet holes in them (Mid-west USA)

I noticed the opposite on dirt roads in the midwest. It's rare to find a stop sign with no bullet holes.
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Lexus has models with a HUD. It was far less useful than I expected. It displays just a compass, digital speedometer, and indicators for cruise control and lane assist.
I don't understand the thought process here on HN when people start punching the flagged button the second a controversial subject comes up. I would think the large portion of scientific minded people here would be thrilled to toss around different ideas, but it seems egos and hurt feeling take over and the thread is ultimately killed.

So unfortunate.
Acquisition price is $3.6 billion: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2022-01-31-sony-buyin...
I had a projectile take out one of the PV panels on my roof. Judging by the hole it was a bullet, though I didn't find anything - if it was a meteorite I would be more excited (and more disappointed not to have found it).
I've written about them on-and-off. I just saw there is a new Beanie Baby documentary out. Shame I didn't know about it. I was the largest seller of Beanies in the world. That $250K deal was fun. I had to get an armoured truck to meet the guy at the airport to take his cash. When we picked up the Beanies the security guys freaked as they thought the Beanies must be full of drugs.
I'm on Debian unstable. Giving wayland a chance once per month on intel and nvidia cards. It seems usable on Intel although many minor X11 habits are broken (like selection), but totally unusable on nvidia (black screen).
X11 is still way to go, as 13 year in development is not enough for Wayland.
Author here. Please let me know if you have any suggestions and/or constructive feedback :)

Purpose of this "yet another package manager", is to keep all those single binary CLI tools updated on a system. In no way this project is designed to replace any of the full-fledged package managers like HomeBrew and others.
Stackle: A daily word game for word lovers
Stackle is a daily word game that is similar in complexity to Sudoku. It is much different from the guess the word games but has similar social features that make it fun to solve and share. Try it.
How about fast food or unhealthy food/drinks? And would you change anything about how prescription medication is advertised?
Since covid started, it seems like every other commercial these days is for either sports betting (FanDuel, DraftKings) or online casinos (all of the big casino companies have an 'online' counterpart)

They all advertise some sort of $100 risk-free bets or something of that nature.

Was this some sort of concession to physical casinos since their customers weren't able to come on-site and gamble?
All of the things you listed just allow for further speculation on tokens (or create synthetic versions of actual tradable markets that already exist), they don’t solve an actual real world problem that non-cryptocurrency owners have. Please try again, and list a successful product that uses blockchain/cryptocurrency in a way that solves a problem in the real non-cryptocurrency world.
The tracking is even worse.
Can you explain what you mean here?

Your assertion seems wholly immature without any explanation for your position.
How interesting. I've never encountered it in NY, but I found this site[0] which suggests that what you're describing is how it should be listed.

It would likely turn into a huge mess here if they started enforcing this. A house I previously owned would be reduced from 2.0 bathrooms to 1.75 bathrooms.

[0]: https://govt.westlaw.com/nycrr/Document/I4f71256bcd1711dda43...
I'm very curious what would happen if Apple suddenly announced that for the next version of Safari (20% of browser market share when combining mobile and desktop), adblocking would be included and ask the user if they want it on.
There should be no guilt and I'm surprised at even the notion as a possibility. If someone pays for a billboard that does not in any way entitle them to my choosing to look away. That's all an ad blocker does: enforce your choice to ignore advertising by not looking.
It is an ugly metaphor but since it’s commonly used it was sortof accepted
While I'm glad to see the comments pointing out that, no, the tweet's linked screenshot did NOT say anything about displaying ads "above search results", I do think this highlights the need for better regulation around having more visual distinction between ads and organic results. And this doesn't just go for Google, should also go for things like Amazon and Instagram influencer paid posts.

From a response tweet:

> To be fair, the approach taken by Google (and most search engines) abides by the rules as set down by folks like the Advertising Standards Authority which let "Ad" work as a get out of jail free card regardless of context or visuals.

At the very least I think there should be a requirement of a different color background, along what Google used to have in their "Sponsored Links" section at the top of results.
Sure, people want simple, but simple is very subjective.

I want simple, +Bluetooth Audio

I want simple, +rear Camera

I want simple, +Cruise Control

I want simple, ....

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv...
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> Well, you need to know what the sinus is and what is addition. If you don't have those concepts it doesn't matter that I write sin(s + i + n) or 'The sinus of s plus i plus n' (not to mention that there's ambiguity there too, does 'of' refer to 's' or 's plus i plus n).

Incorrect. In the example I gave one merely needed to understand multiplication, addition, and the distributive property. And you, who are observably skilled in the art of mathematics, failed to follow a grade school level formula. So much for ambiguous syntax not being an impediment to understanding even when all concepts involved are comprehended.

> Notation is not the issue when explaining mathematics. The mathematical guild has done a ton of effort in improving math education, and you'll be able to find videos and texts that barely have any notation or equations.

It's baffling to me that anyone would attempt to argue that ambiguous syntax is not an issue for explaining mathematics. Please understand that the following unflattering comparison is intended merely for clarity and not to insult. To me it feels like trying to argue with a flat earther that the world is round. The absurdity makes argumentation virtually impossible.

> Notation exists because once you learn the concepts, it reduces the cognitive load of transmitting those concepts.

I agree. In fact that's germane to my original point. The mathematics guild is using primitive notation compared to what computing scientists discovered in the latter half of the 20th century. I'm not saying that notation is bad or even that the traditional amgbigous syntax isn't an improvement over just writing everything out in some natural language. I'm saying the mathematics guild is stubbornly ignoring notational advances that further reduces cognitive load.

> The mathematical guild has done a ton of effort in improving math education

Then how do we explain the complete lack of measurable progress in the average American secondary school student's mathematical ability? It appears to me that regardless of how much effort has been expended, little has come of it.
AdGuard provides DNS servers that allow you to filter for the whole device, regardless of device type or which app you use.

Configure your home router to use it to filter for every device on your home WiFi network.

They have one set of DNS servers that just blocks ads and another set that additionally attempts to filter out adult content.

https://adguard-dns.com/en/welcome.html
Even though progressivism is associated with left liberals these days, I don’t think that was always the case.

For example, those people of Godwin you alluded to were staunchly progressive in the early 20th century conception of the term. They had a belief in a higher form of human society powered by industrial technology and (ideological approved) science. Their idea of progress was unquestionably modernist, although reprehensible and dressed up with the trappings of reaction.

They saw the further right conservatives as stuffy and backwards, hence why they ended up purging them.

Even in the USA, the 1920s progressives sought to promote eugenics and ban the liquor, which they succeeded in doing.
Wow, did not know about XQuery. Can you point to some resources explaning how one would use it as a SSG?
> The US interstate speed limits are at most 120 kph (75 mph)

Minor nitpick: there are 80 and 85mph interstates/sections.
> Gambling, and gambling advertisements, are deliberately designed to hook people to it as an addiction.

> Only 25% of Americans regularly gamble

> and just 2% of gamblers produce 50% of industry revenue.

Very interesting. Do you have sources for these?
Ah interesting. So compatibility issues from 7 to 8, and 8 to 8.1. But not 8.1 to 10?

I would really like to learn why these breaks were considered necessary at the time. In a practical sense it's irrelevant since WP is dead. But on the other hand, with the huge mobile market at stake, why did MS make these decisions that doomed it, and that seem obviously wrong to outsiders?
Recently Embaracedero (formerly Borland) released "Delphi for Python" allowing you use their visual tools with python too.
We used to do this in the 90s for suspected fraud/ misuse of office. I’m sure it’s way easier now.
This is a product my colleagues are working on: https://sowork.com/
I'm always surprised how defeatist and negative the tech community's attitude towards computerized UX in cars is. Often the opinions are simplistic and dismissive instead of zooming into the details. It's similar to when onscreen keyboards in phones where "obviously never going to work" when now, most people probably wouldn't want to give up the screen real estate for a hardware keyboard, except even more one-note.

I find it much more true that most car software simply isn't very good yet on average. Let's say most existing implementations of touch UIs in cars don't add value and are cumbersome to use, for example - but that just means they're individually badly realized, not that it's not worth trying. And in reality, it's also a much more nuanced "depending on the use case and the situation" or "impacted by bad performance".

There are quality differences out there. And there's plenty of use cases in cars that benefit from a thorough software approach. This is an area with interesting problems to solve and plenty of innovation left to happen, and where hard and good work makes a mark.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30141646
> Wagering on sports is “endemic and acceptable and so mainstream that it is now a major pillar of American entertainment,” said Timothy Fong, one of the directors of the gambling studies program at U.C.L.A.

A rhetorical technique: Make the problem seem inevitable, make any opposition seem powerless. Then make the question about the rest of society adapting to it - everyone has to adapt so the gambling industry can make money. It's becoming the same thing with climate change and the fossil fuel industry (and related vested interests).
Sure, but they must still exist -- yet we don't seem to hear them anymore.
Yes you are right with that. Until they knew what was on the servers and helped their users continuing doing it. At moment I think it became criminal.
> We could be getting even closer to stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Not if it's anything like the Covid-19 vaccines that don't stop someone from contracting or spreading it.
No directions for the route finder? That sounds really lame. The BMW HUD is much more useful, if you have a route going on, the turn instructions appear on the windshield.
> HR is going to send up a quick red flag and John is likely to resign claiming a poor fit rather than get caught committing or admitting fraud.

Though at this point they all know John is committing fraud, they still decided only to approach this guy claiming a poor fit for his resignation.
I don't know why they do that. They have discussed a lot and considered many things. I am sure there are many reasons to do so. but do they just want John to go away and then try that same thing with another company?

It might be too strong to say this, but a failure to confront evil is a evil.
Or, instead of declaring war on it, you can regulate it like we do with legal drugs. Ban advertising in most venues, print a disclosure of the dangers on every ad and over the door of every establishment, treat it like the danger it is.
In the data you linked to, 24% of (all) greenhouse gas emissions come from what's known as "land-use change", which is what it sounds like, changes to land use from forests to cropland.

The emissions of the remaining categories in the pie chart (namely: Industry, Transportation, Buildings, Electricity and Heat Production and Other Energy) are primarily the byproduct of burning fossil fuels (and to a lesser extent from cement production).

If you take each of those categories on its own, you can compare them almost favorably to land use changes. But if you take them all together, they add up to 76%.

That is the percentage of greenhouse gas emissions that come from burning fossil fuels. Burning fossil fuels is the major contributor to anthropogenic climate change, in fact is is the cause of anthropogenic climate change.

Again: 76% of all emissions (only a small part of that is from cement production).

Note also that the economist article makes it clear that land use change would be only minimally reduced, at best, from everyone going vegan because the majority of reduction would be in the use of pasture, much of which is not possible to cultivate anyway. So we'd still have to use the same land for cultivating food for humans that we do now to grow feed for animals.

The conclusion to draw is that even if everyone on the planet went vegan, but we continued to burn fossil fuels the same as before, we would still not have done anything to stop climate change and we would only slow it down a little. To eliminate climate change we must radically reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.
> Enough already. Make a car that’s pretty much all dumb and watch it sell

That's all that you need to know that the author is a tech blogger and not a car salesman.
Yes exactly. But it's also a bit of a catch-22, since more people would need to elect government officials that care about this stuff, but they don't get elected because people don't know that it would improve their lives etc.
There was a huge push for banning violent video games in the 90’s - the book “Masters of Doom” covers it. John Carmack and John Romero actively fought for it. Before that, people wanted to ban violent movies in the 60’s.

The more I think about government policies pushed by the likes of NYT, it seems indistinguishable from Chinese Communist Party’s clamp on their population. Banning things for the greater “good” of the society. NZ just banned Tobacco/Cigs. This stance of prohibition from progressives is very unamerican and troubling in the context of US’s core values.
>Again, my question was, how do you expect to start a fruitful conversation with someone

That's just it though, there _isn't_ a fruitful conversation to be had with someone suggesting that a "jaw dropping" reaction to a children's cartoon is normal.
Interestingly their five link submissions are all dead as well. I'm guessing it was some kind of automated response based on the account history.
That's planned. And it will go further than existing templates where it's just fill in the blank.

An idea I had a couple jobs ago -- which I intend to develop now -- is the ability to encode logic into the templates so that the template can be used in all sorts of business situations.
mozilla hubs is a lower barrier to entry because you don’t need to download a whole game. You can just give your friends a link and they also don’t need VR either.

https://hubs.mozilla.com/
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> That's between you and HN and has nothing to do with my consumption of your comment.

Oh the irony! Likewise, the agreement between the content company and the ad company has nothing to do with my consumption of the content. The content company agrees to show ads for the ad company. The ad company agrees to make ads for the content company to show and pay them to show the ads. I make no agreement with either. I download the content and choose not to download the ad. It’s my bandwidth.
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A lot of times the issues are disk IO, 500 desktops all booting up and end-users opening applications at around 9:00am is a surprisingly huge amount of IO.
No, we just legalize gambling, just like we should legalize drug use.

People should be free to use drugs, drink alchool, or gamble.
Backup cameras are mandated in the US now, so that requires an LCD screen on the dash.
I thought it was a European thing but it's worldwide.. sadly.
Remember that while I feel sorry for both parts I'm heavily biased so don't accept anything I write at face value but check it. On the other hand, unlike mainstream media and many who "support the Palestinian[1] cause" I'll be up front about it and ask you to verify yourself without referring you to more heavily biased sources.

> with policies in place to evict Arabs from their lands in order to put Jewish people in there.

I cannot defend everything Israel does but the last time I can remember there was a lot of fuzz on HN about evicting Arabs to give land to Israelis it was about giving back land to the families whos property was stolen and given to Arabs in the brief time where Jordan occupied it.

Also remember that there used to be a whole lot of Jews in the lands surrounding Israel. These partially moved voluntarily, partially where driven out harshly.

Meanwhile Arabs got to stay in Israel[2].

In fact more Jews were moved into Israel from surrounding countries than Arabs expelled from Israel so theoretically, if Arabs wanted, they could have given the properties of the Jews that fled from their countries to the Arabs that came from Israel.

That didn't happen as the Arabs never accepted UNs plan. So the neighbouring countries put their relatives in camps while waiting to "shove the Jews into the sea", Israel welcomed their own people and got them integrated with homes and a place to work. As time went by I think it became convenient to keep them there as a chess pawn.

[1]: I consequently use the word Arabs except here. There has never been a country named Palestine, just a Roman administrative province and later a fiction fueled by crafty journalists that saw that the story about small Israel against the Arab world would put Israel in a good light while "big" Israel (it is the size of a small county in Norway) against the poor "Palestinians"[3] in the camps.

[2]: Part of this seems to be a cynical plot by the Israelis. They asked them to stay I understand because if they all left, all the neighbouring countries could just walk in and shoot everything that lived.

[3]: Actually Arabs, just living inside the borders of the small part that UN/UK gave to the Jewish part of the population.

PS: Again, I'm heavily biased. I write to make you see it from my side. I have been caught in factual errors before. When that happen and I can verify it I have apologized and I try to not repeat those mistakes, again unlike mainstream journalists.
That's not my point.

My point is that content has evolved steadily into becoming something that a great deal of the population actually feels bad about consuming. They feel bad about losing hours on Youtube clicking video after video, but they can't stop because their brains have been hijacked by the fine interplay between algorithm and content creator driving this madness. Nobody would pay for this content if they had to. They don't event _want_ to watch it really.

If content platforms were forced to have a subscriber model. People would only pay for what they actually _want_ access to.
China is turning out so many EV cars, dealers are buying back old one's to keep the price up. This is what BMW did (and possibly other German car manufacturers), in the late 80's/90's.

Another thing I see China doing, is pegging their currency to the dollar, now when the UK did this to the stronger German Deutsche Mark, the UK under Lord Norman Lamont crashed out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism and the UK saw interest rates hit 12/13% so I wonder if this chip shortage has more to it other than investment reasons only?
It still is. No doctor / nurse weighs you for fun. They have better things to do while running a 12-16 hour shift.
IANAL...

> Is there a legal way to demonstrate the legally binding aspect?

I wasn't actually aware that a signature is required for something to be legally binding. I thought all contracts are "legally binding" as long as one party agrees to provide something in exchange to another party. If I send an email that says "confirmed, let's move ahead" then this should be as good as a signature, no? AFAIK, someone's signature is basically just an affirmation for a court to say "do you solemnly swear this is your signature?".

I could be wrong.
That's a bit much.

Not everyone has the aptitude for good, calm driving. That might make them excel in other areas of life, just not at driving safely in traffic. Has humanity failed because we provided them transportation? No, but we have an open challenge to provide transport and allow these (really, all) people the freedom to mentally engage with something else that they deem more important than the chore of driving safely.