skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Teach the facts of history. Tens of millions of Jews, Queer people, and POC were slaughtered by nazi fascists. America's economy was founded on the enslavement of Black people and racist behavior is encoded in some of our systems of government and behavior to this very day. That's not teaching something on the basis of a political belief, that's just a fact that happened.

For many people they applaud the actions of the people who committed these atrocities. Many pine to redo the civil war or try reimagining it as if the South actually won...

These topics definitely can create discomfort. You can't teach the Holocaust without discomfort...but I posit some discomfort is healthy, it encourages us to be compassionate and do better.

The only people who'd feel guilt or anguish are the ones who's parents are Neo-nazi's I'd imagine, but that's a large amount of kids in America -sadly.

I miss the days when we could just teach facts unabashed discomfort or no, just the facts and show what really happened .. I mean in 8th grade we watched a Documentary (1994) that showed items made of Human skin for the Nazi regime, and horrendous images of concentration camps. Definitely makes me not want to take lightly the idea of persecuting people and risk redoing something that heinous.

If we forget or gloss over the hard stuff, we risk losing our discomfort and disgust, and in the process we grow closer to recreating the behaviors that led up to that.
Very nice! As someone who wrote a native tool to do pretty much this (Recut / getrecut.com) it's super impressive to see it done in a web browser. The editor feels very fast and fluid.

Doing it natively was hard enough, and recently I've been rewriting Recut with Rust + Electron so I have an idea of how much work it was to get it working well :sweat-smile: Keep up the good work y'all!
I don't know if any other apps do this but there are plenty of Japanese youtube channels that do this

This one in particular is the one where I was introduced to the style but it certainly wasn't the first to do this.

https://www.youtube.com/c/%E6%9C%89%E9%9A%A3%E5%A0%82%E3%81%...

To be clear, they aren't just cutting out silence, they are cutting them to the point that it's a style and the speech pattern, particularly of the Owl character, sounds unnatural, which I'm assuming is what they were going for. It's that style of nearly cutting phrases together faster than they would be naturally spoken is the thing I'm saying is a trend in some Japanese videos.

Note: The channel itself is run by a stationary store chain from Tokyo. The funny part is the Owl character often makes fun of what they're showing as in "why would anyone buy this?" or "That's way too expensive" which is funny for a channel run by a store selling most of things they're showing off.
Helicopters bro
Haven't touched PICs in a while, but PICkit seems to still be a thing. I remember getting into microcontrollers by saving pocketmoney for pickit2 when I was in school. They also now have an even cheaper option - mplab snap ~30 Eur. That's approximately same as 1-2 official Arduinos. Not exactly month's rent.

At the same time a good JTAG probe like J-Link for arm micros can cost 300-800 Eur. There are both cheap and expensive solutions for most microcontrollers.
Share of infections is different though. We were talking about the hospitalization rate.
I wouldn't assume someone carrying a Nazi flag means all of those things. I wouldn't assume everyone was gay or supported gay rights if someone held a rainbow flag. I might assume the person holding the flag has support for the flag but it's not necessarily true.

If the Nazi flag had Justin Trudeau's face on it I would instantly get the message that Trudeau is a Nazi not support for a group from a foreign country in the 1930s.
It has been yes, and it isn't over yet. We've had significant issues mobilizing the public to address the issue so we've possibly been saddled with a longer recovery time than we'd otherwise have but traditional environmental shortage events (droughts and flooding) could effect areas for decades.

And this did occasionally happen on a global scale as well - see the winter of 536[1] or the Krakatoa explosion of 1883[2] - occasionally the world gets dealt a really rough hand, we're better at responding to global issues like that now but we're still not great.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter_of_536

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa
So just pure ad hominem? No reference to the article, just the url?
The US is definitely a wealthy and successful country, comfortably above the global average. At the same time I wouldn't say that US citizenship stands out as particularly better than other developed countries (e.g. most of the EU).
This is the status quo on desktop OSes, and it's largely a solved problem.

A centralized monopolistic app store isn't solving the same "problem."
Another huge stock surge for a company that is already huge, similar to Google two days ago. A portfolio composed of 10 of the biggest, most dominant tech and payment processing companies would have posted an annual CACR since 2009 of 35%. [1] It would also have smaller drawdowns than the S&P 500. That is as good as Renaissance Medallion (after fees). A 2x leverage version of such a hypothetical fund would have done 10-20% better than Medallion before fees.
[1] https://greyenlightenment.com/2022/02/01/why-infrastructure-...
A common, shallow, cynical take…no, wait, never mind: it’s correct!

OS X has always supported multiple user accounts and I can’t see that ever changing.

The I-devices on the other hand are explicitly positioned as personal devices. And I don’t really see that changing either.

Nowadays the price of macs has dropped to the point where some of the iPads and phones (!) are more expensive than the cheapest (and perfectly capable) macs (I do my development on a baseline MacBook Air because it’s so conveniently light). So they are still selling (relatively) low cost, multiuser machines.
Fair point. That makes sense. May be an opportunity for better messaging for who the product is for. Good luck with the roll out. Others mentioned Descript (which is solid). There's a labs project from Adobe that's exploring the same space (https://labs.adobe.com/projects/shasta/). So lots of options. A more clear customer target is needed (zero experience, prosumer, post-production creative professional). Again, not knocking your product. Just feels like this may end up more of a feature than a product — the subscription angle will force you to add more value and better target the right audience.
I wonder where that comes from. Do they pre-prepare their food and microwave it?
> I really enjoy having tight controls, that probably gives me a hit of dopamine; are good controls now a dark pattern?

There's nothing wrong with a game having good controls, or having a leveling system that exploits our brain's reward system, but knowing which games do it and to what extent they take advantage of it is useful.

Just like how good tasting food isn't a bad thing, and my enjoying the taste of apples isn't a dark pattern, but a company that loads up their food with a ton of extra fats, sugars, and salts to make them even more addictive could be considered a dark pattern and a website listing snacks that contain a bunch of added fats, sugars, and salts might be very useful to folks looking for healthy options. I don't see why it should be any different for a site listing "healthy" games.

If you aren't worried about the amount of dark patterns in your games at all don't bother going to the website. If you only care about some (loot boxes) but not others (level ups) this site has them all listed out for you so either way you'll know what you're getting.
I wonder, can America survive if its uncensored history is exposed?
Ads are much more valuable and higher click through vs impression if they’re personalized.

Small businesses are willing to give more money per ad campaign if they know they’ll get clickthru on a specific target market. These same small businesses don’t have the money to run long ad campaigns which would result in less clicks.
If being forced to compete fairly requires them to drop their prices by 60%, I think that’s a pretty good argument that they’re not competing fairly at the moment.
Jython – Java Implementation of Python
I’ll say this—it’s not always easy bringing home the bacon/keeping the lights on.

I live in King County WA, and housing prices here have made owning a home impossible for anyone who isn't a doctor, lawyer, or median software engineer.

Outside real-estate, grocery prices are continuing to rise, schools are struggling to stay open, bus routes are being canceled, and there is nearly no affordable childcare options.

Yes, my job is to provide for my children, but at times it's real a struggle, and while I don't expect my kids to tell me thanks for giving them a basic life, I tell myself that the sacrifices I make are ultimately for their best interest.
Scientists must resist cancel culture
This is a great suggestion. I'd probably add some level of preliminary education, but do you know if Habitat helps with or requires that?
I bought the Slackware CD from a local MicroCenter and used it as the email server for my ISP (running qmail) in 1996.
The ACLU rather famously defended the nazi rights to free speech. Are they evil?

The paradox of tolerance is just an excuse to oppress the people you disagree with. Actual nazis are a minute fraction of the population. People see the idiocy and point it out.

Meanwhile, Communism has killed a couple hundred million people (vs 6 million for the nazis) and you can see tons of communist flags at any of the recent left-leaning protests.

The tolerance paradox doesn’t get even the thought of a mention when this happens. It’s just a tool of ideologically driven sophists.
Agree on that last sentence. Thanks for making Recut!
Teaching them the value of a dollar.
fuckign insane. call holders gonna make a fortune.
If someone was choosing a Linux distro today, what would be some reasons to choose Slackware rather than another popular distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch?
Snap shares soar 60% on first profitable quarter
>>The idea that printing money is a primary driver of inflation may be outdated.

No it is not

>>During the Great Recession, a vast increase in the money supply had no apparent impact in inflation

Ohh but it did, you just are not looking in the correct market, the money printed in that time was going into institutions, not individuals so the inflation was not in consumer goods but in stocks, real estate and other hard investments

If you look at a chart of stimulus pending over time, and the stock market you see and almost exact parallel.,

COVID spending on the other hand was more direct, with increase unemployment payments, check sent to everyone, child tax credits etc etc etc

This round this more directly impacted the consumer market
I don’t think got lucky and executed brilliantly to hand in hand very often. That’s already a huge win.
On old screens (CRT) dark background was preferred, as the screen-flicker is more noticeable the brighter the screen and the lower the refresh rate (and shorter the fluorescence of the screen). Screens with high refresh rate were expensive and rare before the nineties. Atari ST monochrome display was an exception.
> it minimizes the need for heroic personal sacrifice with respect to preserving the environment

The dirty secret is that plenty of technology exists that can actually increase your quality of life while lowering your energy consumption. I'm not just talking about EVs, but electric buses and trains, heat pumps, sealing up drafty houses. But these things require changing how we do things, not necessarily how much we consume of things.
Jumpers or nothing for me.
It was in the brokerage account of everybody who owned FB shares

The value went nowhere... it ceased to exist.
I investigated solar and generation requires appropriately sized circuits and capacity, even if the direction is the opposite.

so 100A panel + 100A of solar requires a 200A panel

A few other things that require high-amp service - on demand electric water heating, and electric car charging (and we're moving towards multiple vehicles).

It's also worth mentioning that by far the largest cost of an electrical circuit is the labor, so sizing for 100A, 200A and 400A is not 1x, 2x, 4x. upgrading later is a huge cost.
As mentioned in the comment you're replying to, check the expansion of the money supply after 2008, and check the inflation since; check how long it took to get anywhere near 2%. For shits and giggles, check out the predictions of the same people you're listening to now, then.
If you have an electric car, you can get PG&E's EV time of use rate. Schedule charging during off-peak hours (past midnight) and it's on the order of $0.13/kWh.
> nothing like this ever gets "caught out" by a satellite unless it's the result of a crash (recall the panic over an F-117 going down decades ago because it 'pancaked' in a manner that could reveal its shape)

With the proliferation of private imaging satellites in the last decade, this might be less doable than it used to be.
As a Hungarian and an American, my reaction when reading that we should avoid the Karikó problem by funding more diverse people, my first thought was how Hungarians are often not considered “diverse” in the US because they have white skin, and the US has a very binary view of what makes someone a minority.
I’ve been developing in Crystal a lot lately, and it’s a very interesting middleground.

You can still monkey patch, but having type safety and compilation gives you guarantees that you don’t get when you do the same thing in ruby. What you get out of the box is flexible, but still doesn’t require “discipline” in the same way Rails is.

The downsides right now are the small community and compilation times are an impediment to new dev UX for sure, but it’s definitely caused me to rethink what I really value from ruby.
Email is easy to migrate. If Google let GSuite legacy free account migrate to this new Essentials Starter it is a better solution than having to transfer your data to a @gmail.com account.

This "Essentials Starter" at least has access to Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, as well as Chat and Meet. It also has a 15gb of storage per user.
I can understand a person taking seriously the possibility that they will lose their job to automation. I live in a country with a weak social safety net (United States).

If programming is "a big part" of your identity, get help for that. People work to make money. We are all in charge of our career choices, and we should pay attention to changes that might affect our work future. Having been in the programming business for four decades I've had to pay attention to the possibility that my job would get outsourced overseas -- that was a big thing a couple of decades ago, though it never happened to me because I made sure my skills weren't easily outsourced overseas or fobbed off on juniors with less experience.

Getting worried, feeling uncomfortable, having a "visceral reaction" won't do any good. Nor will trying to push back against progress. What will do some good is paying attention to actual trends that affect your career, and figure out what you can safely ignore (like AI writing production code anytime soon). Everyone who doesn't want to end up out of a job has to continually adjust their skills and career path. None of us has a guaranteed "place in the future," it's up to us to position ourselves for reasonably likely futures.
C-IPC: State-of-the-Art Computer Graphics Simulation Model
The marriage path works fine if you come in on a tourist visa and over stay it.
Blame the consumer? Uh, no.

You're bringing up non-profit projects as proof that consumers aren't doing the right thing.

But, don't forget, there used to be a highly competitive commercial smartphone market until the competition was whittled down through acquisitions and exits.

Microsoft, Blackberry, Palm, Apple, Nokia, and Android all had their own smartphone OS simultaneously for a brief moment in time.

Consumers can't be blamed for market consolidation. If that's the case might as well blame them for T-Mobile buying Sprint or for the AT&T or Microsoft monopolies.

I don't know if this bill is the right bill but anti-trust is an issue of growing importance. You buy an expensive durable good and it shouldn't be left to the manufacturer to decide whether it wants to screw you over or not (and this same concept applies to things like cars, washing machines, etc).
It’s true that TCP/IP don’t really follow the OSI 7 layer model but I think the solution is to get rid of the old model that is not fit for purpose rather than to rediscover the failures that led TCP/IP to succeed instead of the standards that were designed in tandem with the model. (Apart from the layers, the main things to come from that effort to today were x.509 and ldap)
Not true. Apple places a 7 day limit on developer mode side loaded apps when using a free account.

Sorry to link to Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/sideloaded/comments/8ht5uy/question...
The questions, as asked, are lacking in tangible reality dynamics and are phrased with bias.

My first response to the first version of that loaded question: "_I wasn't saying they should_..."

You respond with: "If Company A builds a product/service, why should Company B be expected to utilize Company A's work without compensation?"

Am I to believe you're being genuine here? Should I really repeat myself again, in text, to save you a scroll up?

I didn't say that. I never implied that. I stated the exact opposite.

Why are you asking me to rationalize and explain a stance I've never taken, and don't have?
because I'm not interested in that information
What makes you think any central planners would have done a better job predicting our current shortages than the other market participants?
There's a lot to unpack in this back and forth.

Violent reactions are really the only deterrent left to keep thieves at bay. If everyone was so laissez faire about it, well, I'd eventually expect my house to be emptied daily, and my insurance to cost about $30k a month.

I get your point that theft isn't currently -that bad-, but realize that using that info to justify thievery just keeps compounding the problem.
Slackware was my first Linux too. I remember making the installation floppy disk set. And then it was my first introduction to running a computer others could remotely control. After learning how to dial up AOL from Linux then join an IRC chat room, I was immediately "pwned" by someone in that chat room who guessed my root password and rm -rf /'d my entire hard drive. I was probably 8 or 9 at the time and cried.
Source: Apple.

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin...

For government and law enforcement information requests, Apple complies with the laws pertaining to
global entities that control our data and we provide details as legally required.

L. AirTag and Find My Network Accessory Program

To add AirTag or supported third-party products to the Items tab in the Find My app, customers must
have an Apple ID, be signed into their iCloud account with Find My enabled, and register their AirTag
or supported third-party products to their Apple ID.

With a serial number, Apple may be able to provide the paired account details in response to a
subpoena or greater legal process.
I have never seen anything like this. How does a $40 billion company go up 50% on earnings? I can understand a $400 million company doing that, but $40 billion? It's as if everyone got it wrong. Imagine buying calls today for pennies and selling for dollars tomorrow. Maybe I can try to backtest a system that does this, but you would have a lot of misses. But all you need are a few winners. This is how people on Reddit's wallstreetbets make so much money. They are doing just that. Between snapchat, amazon, and Facebook, multi-billion dollar stocks have more volatility than penny stocks.
If you have enough money to pay your bills, with a lifestyle that works for you, that is enough. Because we all live in different places, have different families, different desires and goals... Different people will have different numbers.

The key is that you did not ask how much money to never have to work again and have complete freedom - that is a vastly different number than "enough to be satisfied".
Well there’s your problem right there. Regulatory capture with a heaping helping of crony capitalism.
Eddington's Two Tables
Even given (for the sake of argument) that there was cause for hope at some point, that's not an excuse to cling to that hope indefinitely, especially when it demands the violation of other people's bodily autonomy. That hope is dead, and people must let it rest.
Kids aren't tabula rasa. I don't know why you'd think you can just brainwash them to do what you want.
I'd bet $20 that Google (and probably Amazon) has started or will start working on an App Store for iOS. If either of them use their dark patterns to get people to install their app stores then this could be a different situation than what's happening on Android, where very few users actually side load apps. With the weight of one of these giants they could really get massive adoption on iOS in an alternative store.
Scripting News: Apple's boastful robot
> Before CRISPR came along, I remember talking to someone working in archaebacteria who went on and on about these arrays of sequences in archea that seemed really fascinating to him, but I never quite got the implication of what this would eventually develop into before it actually did become CRISPR (by other people working in the field).

>I remember ~20 years ago hearing about nanopore DNA sequencing, and wondering if it would ever work (it does!).

These two things are very different to my eyes.

Nanopore sequencing seems obvious to me as an electrical engineer. The basic problem was noise and control--which you could probably solve with computes and Moore's law. You can fund it, but it feels like something you could leave to industry as it seems like it's engineering more than science.

CRISPR is non-obvious. It's more in the realm of Taq polymerase--it's interesting but, so what? Well, Taq polymerase would become the keystone to PCR about 15 years later.

I'm much more interested in figuring out how to fund the things that later become building blocks rather than pouring money on something that industry is likely to do anyway.
If you make a stick with switches I would choose something more easily toggled and durable than DIP switches. Those work fine in a situation where you rarely touch them if ever, like a luxury version of a jumper grid. But if you go out of your way to add them to a system, odds are you're going to need to change them more often and usability and durability become a factor.
The data is apparently from their own employee surveys and includes "a minimum participation standard of two hundred companies but can often grow to include thousands of companies."

Hard to know how much you can trust the results with a small and biased sample like this.
Solana has been down a lot too https://status.solana.com/
Things like it happen here and there. It took very long to build that Finnish nuke, which might be an example. It depends on the political conditions: typically, to get a big pot of money together needs support from a broad swath of supporters, who then each expect patronage, a piece of the pie. As long as the money is flowing, everybody involved stays happy, regardless of how much actual work is getting done.

Even in the US, not all public-works projects are afflicted. Solar and wind power systems seem mostly not afflicted.
$150M is 15% of a billion. Why would they have a few billion in cash if they only have $150M? Numbers seem off.