skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iceland, and specifically some of our financial institutions, was placed on a terrorist list by the British PM Gordon Brown during the financial crisis in 2008. His thinking was to be able to freeze the funds these institutions held in Britain.

I know of many people who worked on the floor in those institutions during that time that have joked about what would happen if they would technically tell the truth on those ESTA questionnaires.

I don't think any has actually done so.
Show HN: New tab for unwavering focus and deep flow
Tables can be arbitrarily complex, just like html, so yes a line has to be drawn somewhere. Spreadsheets and slide presentations can be copy-pasted as file attachments. That's fine.

You can't have a table look the same in every app, nor is that desirable (you'd have to embed fonts and re-create postscript). What you can have is the ability to copy-paste a table (or a bulleted list) back and forth between apps without mangling the state in the process. Rich Text intertwines semantics and style and it's not a good solution.

Most of the time you don't need the layout precision of postscript. There is a huge difference between not having any kind of tables or semantic context for text and having some that cover the 95% of daily use.
Yep people don't understand history very well. Just a hundred years ago half of the population worked in agriculture. The only education you got was primary school.
I am glad I live in the 21st century were I don't have to spend a single second doing farm work or heavy manual labor.
> but in practice it's the minimum you are expected to drive.

No, it's not. Far from it. A speed limit of 70mph on a motorway is not the minimum, just because you, or other vehicles want to exceed it.

A speed limit of 20/30mph in a city center is not a minimum; it's actively dangerous to exceed it, and if you regularly exceed these you are a danger on the road.

A limit of 60mph on a national road is often granted based on road classification rather than the actual road; There are numerous A roads in Scotland that are _not_ safe to travel at 60mph for large stretches of due to poor road camber, poor visibility, narrow lanes, etc.

> I do have a bike and I always get off the road to let cars pass when there is one nearby.

This is a dangerous and unpredictable way to cycle, and can lead to cars overtaking you when it's dangerous to do so/they're not confident to do so, in the same way that an unconfident driver travelling at 40mph on a motorway is dangerous, or a car driving in a hard shoulder to allow overtaking is dangerous.
I can relate 100%. In the past I was constantly using Twitter, Gmail, et al. I was using different hacks to bend them to the extent possible to my will. Time changed, my personality changed and the desire and need to use those services disappeared, therefore I naturally stopped using them. When people where talking about this or that service being down, I didn't notice it at all. I was also lucky enough to not rely on them on my $dayjob. I run my mail server, host my website and run my scripts. Old fashoin guy lets say. It works well for me. Moreover, JS-bloat is a red flag to stay away from certain services. Has served me well.
"I do have a bike and I always get off the road to let cars pass when there is one nearby."

So if you were in London you would never get to the destination?
Programmers enable a lot of bullshit jobs indirectly. And it's easy to write software that serves no purpose whatsoever without everyone noticing.

The most famous business failures were hardware or offline companies like Juicero, WeWork or Theranos. Software companies tend to survive, grow and "produce".

The end of great times for programmers will be the end of bullshit jobs for everyone else, and that crisis will be much bigger.
Hi danpalmer, I kind of hit on this in the article. How do you think abstracting away the server adds any value in "public cloud"? Where you can get bespoke VMs, with no concern for the underlying hardware? Can you elaborate?
Cross-platform desktop development never really worked properly, partly because the platforms were competitors and had no interest in making it easy. The web is the "neutral zone" where platform-specific stuff has mostly been fought off, at least since we killed IE and Flash.

If you want to make a native app, the first question has to be "native to what platform?"
I think at some point in the future studying consciousness will be as nonsensical as studying the soul.

I think that is all we really mean anyway and it is just wrapped up in different packaging.

Soul/spirit/consciousness all the same thing. Chasing the same ghost.
Bad design. Would you ever put something into production that couldn't tell if two people were trying to write the same object at the same time and roll one back?
> It's nuts to me that a skilled profession - that not many can do - lets themselves get micro-managed like this.

Physicians at hospitals know your pain, as their product manager equivalent is hospital administration micro managing how they can practice medicine.
Yeah rST is theoretically nice but being both permissive and extremely whitespace-sensitive makes it very fiddly in practice, with inscrutable warnings and many mis-compiled documents with no warnings or information.

Some of the markup choices were really less than ideal in retrospect, especially indentation for quoting and definition lists (though it’s nice to have definition lists), even more so given the aforementioned whitespace sensitivity.

Really hard to beat as a thing to build around, but that also greatly limits the ability to process or reimplement it.
> I’ve had cars cut me off in an unsafe manner to turn right in front of me so fast I had to slam my bicycle breaks… while I was going the speed limit.

To be fair, I've had this as a driver too. Everyone has seen the driver in an outside lane cut across two lanes of traffic to take a turn that they were in the wrong lane for.
As far as I know it would be hard to do it outside of the boot firmware's own compatibility options (which most systems currently have AFAIK, but is probably on the way out). Whilst the old BIOS starts external code in Real Mode, with UEFI it sets the CPU into the operating mode. This means with most systems you'll be in 64 bit / Long Mode, and you can't leave that once entered.

You could have fun with hypervisors etc., but I guess we're thinking bare metal here?
Sharing bathrooms is not the same as "substandard accommodation". That's the point. You can (and do) build perfectly modern, clean, safe high standard living quarters with shared bathrooms. You can also find terrible slum apartments with private bathrooms.
Exactly. People underestimate how important availability is, to put it in IT terms.

Perhaps the clearest example of this is Uber, where it's not guaranteed to be available at all in your area at a time of your choosing, but the pre-booked cab service that costs 2x more will near-flawlessly arrive on time, every time.
From the perspective of the 20 drivers behind you, you are the inconsiderate person.
In eastern Europe they are lamenting because any dev that can speak english is getting rates that they cannot compete with.
Oh look, a psychology website publishes some woo "evolutionary environment" article. This is fiction and should not be taken seriously by anyone, so why do people still read it? Perhaps if you upvoted the article, you can enlighten me.
I guess it was more like that I got burnt out from other things and ended up only being able to get myself to work 2-3 hours.

That said, I wasn't working especially long hours before, either. Maybe not 2-3 hours but still sub-8. The burnout definitely wasn't caused by long hours.

'Burnout' is a pretty ambiguous word IME but in its most commonly used sense it's pretty unrelated to hours worked. My favorite definition is that burnout is a "felt loss of impact and/or control".
Lots easier to collect user data without having to worry about inconvenient browser privacy protections?
Something like that, but rather on the form of a .EFI executable (for example), to load it on UEFI firmwares that don't provide a CSM: there are many of them...
You start your argument by watering down the definition of dictator. Parents aren't dictators, they're people with authority above their offspring. This authority comes with enormous heart-felt responsibility. Being rejected by somebody doesn't make that person a dictator. Everybody is free to reject you and vice versa. If you're looking for no rejections at all, you might not be psychologically fit. Yes, the world is full of BS, this isn't a bug it's a feature - humans are creative.

> We need more dictators who can take charage and kick the wrong kind of people into prison.

Are you trolling?
If you can afford them, freeform progressives will provide the largest usable field of view. Google “freeform progressive” for more.

Note that “freeform” encapsulates multiple types, depending on how much of the lens surface is custom: https://www.2020mag.com/ce/the-optics-of-free-form. Ask your optician how much you’d benefit from each and the price difference.

An optician that does this a lot will have a machine to measure your frame-specific pantoscopic tilt and vertex distance, not just PD.
MIT Demonstrates Portable Hydrogen Fuel Generator for USMC
I've FreeDOS installed on my retro laptops (Toshiba Libretto and Toshiba Satellite, both from 1998) and it works great for my nostalgic needs, although some games like to crash but they would probably crash on a "classic" DOS anyway and it's a matter of fiddling with memory management. One cool thing is that I've configured USB support and because FreeDOS supports FAT32 I can easily transfer files from my regular laptop using an USB flash drive.
As an American, I've actually already experienced this, sort of.

I grew up in the Midwestern US, on a farm, miles from the closest town and miles more from the closest city, the name of which would probably only register with people in a 2-5 State radius.

When I moved to New York City after college, I realized I could already name more streets and places in NYC than I could from my childhood. I knew the museums and the bridges, the boroughs, the landmarks; Battery Park and Castle Clinton were right out of Deus Ex. My "home town" didn't have a mayor; I couldn't name one of the nearby city, but I knew LaGuardia and Giuliani.

I'm not actually sure if NYC and LA are overrepresented in American media -- the NYC metro area is something like 8% of the US population, after all -- but because a half dozen cities are the backdrop of so much of American culture even the people who live in one have all the rest, thousands of miles away, to develop that distant familiarity with.

(On the topic of brands, the biggest question New Yorkers had for me, coming from the Midwest, was whether Long John Silver's really existed; the ads saturated New York advertising despite not having any locations within a state or three. Likewise, I'd never encountered a Dunkin Donuts prior to moving to the coast.)
> And how many cars are in a car-free zones can hit you?

That's not OP said, they claimed "Aggressive and fast driving cyclists are in no way less dangerous to pedestrians than a car".
Coal plants are indeed doing a great job of making themselves extinct around the world. The problem is countries like Australia where they manage to defer that inevitability through government handouts, protectionist legislation, and overtly anti renewables policies. High prices help. Unstable prices help more. Coal mines are going to have a tough time dealing with rapidly dropping demand and making the necessary investments to keep on operating. Though prices are high, that's mostly because of competing mines not managing to survive. Nice for the ones that remain; but opening a new coal mine would probably be an investment that would be problematic mid to long term.

Either way, Atlassian speeding things up a little might have a positive impact. Either way, the Australians could do more to nudge their country towards being a bit less dependent on burning stuff to keep their ACs going. It's not that hard. Most of their cities are close to oceans (with lots of wind power) and the continent is well known for having a lot of exposure to sun light throughout the year. Also, it does not have much of a winter even in places like Melbourne and Adelaide on its South coast, which have a latitude (37 degrees South) that is comparable to that of places like California (Santa Cruz), Northern Africa, etc. in terms of amount of sun light.
Discussion from the launch of Standard Markdown / CommonMark:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264733
> but for different reasons and expressed with different attitudes

What reasons / attitudes / sentiment are you referring to?
I agree. What a beautiful man and a beautiful piece of writing about him. I'd happily chip in, no reward needed.
"clutter, obstacles to manoeuvre around"

Of the clutter can be insane, there is a new, 3 meter wide path, and some donkeyballs-brained perdon has installed a lamppost, a large metal 'internet box', and some other metal box duagonally across the path, so you can't cycle through it any more, and get through on a wheelchair!
Sounds like an idea for Randall Munroe's next book.
The gap between software and hardware is now so great. Developers today don’t even have a grasp of the simple concepts so when you try to engage why code is buggy those conversations require dumbing down to simple terms. I feel like my soul dies each day doing this.
Very useful, great AI/ML taxonomy. Tx
Controlling stakes in large public companies typically go for at least 25% above the trailing 52 week average. This wasn’t a serious offer, instead they are probably aiming to get media attention and traction for a long boardroom battle ahead.
I can totally relate to these observations:

1) We recently moved from a 80m² flat to a ~145m² house, plus 50m² of basement (860 -> 1560+540 sqft). We had a lot of stuff but it fitted well. Now the house is already equally full with things, but the only non-house-related item we got that takes up more space than before is the super automatic coffee maker. Thinking about it, this is because the actual living rooms did get only marginally bigger: A lot of the additional space is "hidden" because now each of us has a room of their own instead of a shared office. Which, for us and our relationship, is a tremendous boon.

2) Most of things we rarely use derive their value from being available on-demand. Especially for maintenance and repairs: When we rented a flat, all these tasks were the duty of our landlord. Now owning an older house of our own means we have to do that, and often having the proper tools & materials available is a huge boon. The most bulky item: The ladder for cleaning the roof rails. And then there is about a palette of various building materials I still need for all the necessary repairs/maintenance/improvements that we need to do.
Yep. Digital nomad lifestyle is basically impossible if you're interested in vintage electronics. Spare parts or machines are sometimes extremely difficult to re-purchase, or even outright impossible to obtain.
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> so that doesn’t seem to be a good reason to continue doing it.

Forgive me, but "Many people worldwide are struggling to get certain nutrients, so it doesn't matter if we remove an important source of those nutrients" doesn't strike me as very well reasoned.

> It’s possible though, and we should work towards it ASAP

Why should we give up fishing? Improve sustainability and management of fisheries, sure, but if the goal is to eradicate hunger, why would you want to get rid of something that is an important provider of jobs and nutrients for some of the poorest people?
Just because you think they are sometimes jerks and may be dangerous doesn't mean you think they are not human.

As a pedestrian and driver I've nearly been hit multiple times by cyclists (or scooter riders, who are similar) going full speed downhill on the sidewalk, or flying through crosswalks and straight through a red light, or going the wrong way on a one-way street. One time, as I stepped off the curb, a man on a bike nearly hit me as he flew the wrong way through a red light and across a busy intersection -- and he shouted at me as he did it.

I'm of the view that riding bicycles is great, but that people on bikes need to obey the rules of whatever infrastructure they are using just like everyone else. I don't know why some people think as soon as they hop on a bike the rules no longer apply to them.
The extensions can only break the captcha given a real user on a unique browser, something the “robots” struggle with massively at scale which is why Google don’t mind the extensions existing.
I think the article mentions that Google recommends against using Cname for this, and using A records instead.
You're right about luck. Though I should clarify, I include tech in the "product team"; and it's usually me fighting back :)
I’m so glad I don’t have to work with that code, I would lose my mind
On the other hand, many expats I know are more impressed with overseas health care compared to the reputation of it back home.
I think 10-20% is a wild overstatement. There are certainly cyclists who do stupid and inconsiderate things (and in my experience those people are generally reprimanded by other cyclists), but just because they are doing something that you as a driver find inconvenient doesn't make them assholes. For instance, riding side-by-side is often a deliberate strategy because cars will often try to pass you without veering into the opposite lane or slowing down at all. Depending on the width of the traffic lane this is probably illegal (at least where I live and you are required to give cyclists 3 feet of space when passing). Riding side by side just forces the driver to do what they should be doing anyway. Likewise, if a cyclist is in the road despite their being a bike lane, it is quite often for a reason. Believe it or not we do not enjoy riding within inches of cars and try to avoid it if possible. Sometimes bike lanes are full of debris and broken glass and it is safer to ride in the lane than have a tire blowout at high speed.
It seems like all the magic processes are a "Now you have n+1 problems" problem. Everyone who invented a new process thought they were fixing what was broken in the last process.
It is clear from your tone that you won't be convinced by any argument, but why is it that this particular CEO earning a high salary is "money laundering" and "corruption"?

Mozilla and Firefox developers are still actively engaged in web standards, and are still punching above their weight in terms of building a web browser with a small team, and narrow revenue streams.

I don't necessarily agree that Mozilla has the right leadership, but how do you expect that leadership to change constructively if the pay isn't competitive with other tech companies of similar size and scale (1/2 Billion in revenue, and hundreds of millions of users)?
Would love to know which countries don’t actually haze their doctors.

Here in DR docs get hazed out the Wazoo-being told they don’t have the status to look at the head surgeon in the eye or being tasked to get coffee.
OP here: And all that is behind a Pi-hole :-D

With default conf, sometimes one doesn't block what the other blocks.

Maybe if I spend time tuning and configuring them one will be enough.

At this very moment, I'm on a page where both block 1 thing, not the same
Primarily the brain, absolutely. I’ve read the illusion of conscious will and similar books. They struck me as overconfident drivel. We do not understand the universe on a macro or micro scale, and there are just to many oddities for me to dive head first into contemporary explanations of consciousness presented as “fact” by narrow minded “experts”. A physical computer view of the brain could just as easily be an antenna, and damage to either could still cause the observed issues from brain damage, psychological disorders, etc.

A great example to dive into is the phenomenon of crystal polymorphism; specifically, how the primary crystalline form of a chemical changes simultaneously at labs on the other side of the world with no cross contamination. It’s a huge problem for pharmaceutical companies, but the interesting part is that there is no rational explanation for the phenomenon presented by modern science.

Science is based on observable fact, but where humans go off the rails is making the assumption that everything is observable, that observations are sufficiently precise, or by dismissing new ideas out of the narcissism of being an “expert” in a competing theory. It’s a theme that repeats over and over again throughout history.

I think it is entirely possible consciousness could be a related to a force we do not understand or even perceive, similar to crystal polymorphism.
You may call me sceptical, if my face gets wrinkles, when I think of the combination of Atlassian, one of the worst offenders in terms of CPU load when loading any page of their platform, be it Bitbucket, Jira or the Atlassian wiki, and therefore energy waster, is to buy a big polluter, to "make it green". Perhaps Atlassian should focus on actually getting their software in order first, and become greener that way.
>We got great hard sci-fi like Gravity, Arrival, Ex Machina

Those were terrible movies and not hard sci-fi.
Okay, maybe Arrival was watchable.
I remember back in the days I had dial-up and installed a Tetrinet server. I could beat anyone, except this one girl who was competitive with me. People came and went. I could slack a bit, get on their level, yet still win. Then I got DSL and my ping improved, making the game easier. OTOH, some people (mostly, good ones) sticked around, and ultimately improved. I had to play better. Until, at some point, we had multiple competitive players. Competition makes people (play) better, its one of the thriving forces behind capitalism (which, arguably, also has its flaws). Did we all play Tetrinet a lot? Oh yes.

My experience with gaming is that at a certain percentile, there's no-lifers, some of whom are pros. I don't want to look up at no-lifers, so I care about the amount of effort put in to reach the goal. Without knowing the amount of effort, I don't care about the result. Its meaningless to me. Whereas in a sports competition with sponsors and everything you can assume they give it their everything (their life's work), we don't know how it is with non-professional gaming. Ergo: meaningless.
I believe what happens is kind of a cycle feedback - a driver becomes pedestrian. That pedestrian is badly treaded by a cyclist - high speed passing sometimes ending up with a slight hit. Usually angry responses to any comment toward a cyclist. That pedestrian goes back into a car, and spots a cyclist using street that goes perfectly along an unoccupied path for cyclists.
Sorry but, my personal experience with cyclist is that they seem to be worse towards pedestrians than drivers are towards them.
Yes a Google employee could go work elsewhere. But is there an equally well paid position at a more ethical company? As far as I can tell, all FANGs are as unethical as each other
The solution is always one of 3 things: feed, burp, change diaper
Why do people wear 'cycling clothing'? Because, unless you have a short commute, having padded shorts makes riding more comfortable.

If someone is riding slowly, but still riding for a reasonably long time, having padding is a significant comfort.

..then you follow up saying it's rational to hate.

And is it REALLY 10-20%, or is it just that you're so used to asshole drivers that you just REMEMBER the cyclists who ride badly, and thus inflate the number mentally?

I say this as someone who regularly rides ~100-150 miles per week, and pre-covid commuted to work every day.
New NASA mission sheds light on supernova
your are optimistic, most analytics guys I know are working with clients to transition to GTM server-side tagging
how do you mean? it seems like the least amount of trouble if the alternative is writing your own platform from scratch.