skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think there is such a thing. The closest I know of is https://hckrnews.com, which shows a chronological list of everything that hits the front page. In some ways, this is the best that you can do, because once a story drops off the front page it (mostly) stops getting votes. The truly flag-killed stories appear as "Dead undefined" but you can click to view them.

Separately, I think you may be confusing "flagging" with a plethora of other things that cause stories to be demoted. A high ratio of comments to upvotes invokes the "flamewar detector", which causes stories to instantly drop in ranking. You can observe this with https://hnrankings.info. Vertical drops are usually flamewar, while the line stops for flag killed stories.

For the particular case of Ukraine stories, Dan may well have instituted some sort of penalty against them. I don't think they are banned for being political, rather the goal (I think reasonable) is to prevent the front page from being dominated by too many of them. You can write him email (hn@ycombinator.com) and he'll probably tell you.

Edit: The "active list" of most commented stories (https://news.ycombinator.com/active) can be another useful window.
Western governments are bureaucratic autocracies.

(Edit: I'm not even being cynical here, it's just a bit of reality, the word 'autocracy' makes it sound harsh but it is what it is - most important things happened behind closed doors and not even by politicians)

Public sentiment and elections have little influence over most things unless there is 'outrage' or some kind of 'focus' on an issue.

A 'few key issues' drive public narrative and votes, but the gears are run by the bureaucracy.

What we get in democracy is mostly just the ability to pull the plug on groups, and the ability to outrage over some new bit of information about the system. Much less so setting the overall direction. Or rather, we 'kind of influence that' by having a 'rough idea over who is in charge, politically'.

The cronyism problem is mostly solved with transparency and making sure the general public understands.

There are a handful of very 'standard ways' that corruption happens - frankly we should be teaching this in school.

A certain 'recent former president' bought a home in Florida for $20M, then sold it 2 years later for $90M to a Russian oligarch. (Before this person was president).

That is 'perfectly legal' - however, regular people should understand that transactions that happen above or below market value signal something. It's like a 'gift'.

A better way to look at that, is a 'Russian oligarch' gave someone who is now a 'former President' a 'gift' of $50M dollars.

It's irrational for people to just hand over huge sums to other people for no reason.

Ergo - there's probably a quid-pro-quo, which can come in many forms.

It can be to influence policy directly, softly, in a specific direction, a general direction.

Insider Trading is another example. It's not obvious why or how that works, but it's not complicated.

How the 'Art World' can be a big fraud/scam (in an illegal way).

Teenagers can be taught this, and frankly I think it would be an entertaining course that they would really pay attention to.
Totally agree.

Interestingly, people have been (wrongly) arrested for not paying tips in the US. They were quickly released, but I think that misconception indicates how strong of a norm paying at least something in tips is.
even better if it's less desirable and harder to steal THAN another bike nearby.
Was it right for Putin to flood the disputed territories with Russian nationals then lay claim to said areas to "protect Russians"?
1. I did not hear him equate realist with moral in that talk. Most people would consider the realist school to be amoral. (I advocate neither)

2. "NATO pushed..." does not imply Russia is right. Russia is wrong, legally and morally, but it can be simultaneously true that NATO pushed Russia.
It's cringeworthy, it discredits the interviewer and does a disservice to the interviewee who was probably not aware of the exaggeration.
This looks amazing, thanks for sharing!
You tip when you pay, not per drink order. Most bars allow you to open a tab if you'll be there long enough to order several rounds.

But, if you're paying as you go, then yeah, you'd tip the bartender each order.

You said waitress, which implies table service. That would normally be tipped when you pay at end of evening. I've never been to a bar that requires paying per drink when seated and getting table service.
FLOSS license conditions aren't very well respected even in the West. Hopefully the lawsuit against Vizio will set a precedent that makes it possible for users to enforce them as well as copyright holders.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
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Your views are also worth more to the creators. That isn’t to say there are not other issues with creators and wringing money from the Google branded stone.
It’s not screen dimming. It is an app to fully control the monitor without using its physical buttons.

Lunar can change the hardware brightness, the same one that you can change using the monitor OSD. That in itself required a lot of reverse engineering and research about the DDC protocol.

Adaptive brightness, ambient light sensor integration and other automatic features also needed months of non-stop work.

Plus, the app is open source, trying to give something back to the community which gave me the inspiration to create this: https://github.com/alin23/Lunar

Even with $23 per license, after taxes I barely make half of what I made at my previous job where I worked less hours.

I don’t understand how you can dismiss this so simply.

the people pirating your software probably wouldn't have paid for it anyhow

I heard this argument so many times.. it's like saying to someone who just got their bike stolen while they were trying to sell it

| the thief would have probably never bought it

If you don't need the Pro features, don't pay for them and don't use them. Simple as that. Why does it feel okay to steal them in the software world, but it's clearly a crime in the real world?
The throttling is so severe it is effectively blocking. The throttling goes down to 50KiB/s on my PC trying to download a basic youtube video. That around 0.4mbps which puts you barely around the bandwidth needed to stream a very low quality 360p/480p video. For reference, this video is about 2 minutes long and that's how long it took me to download it via the last version of youtube-dl:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVRInek075g
That was My experience. Was stuck in bed 22 hours a day for a year, unable to even look at phone or tv.
Few months after lots of Vit D I was kayaking every weekend.
Would you be thinking of any particular senator(s) "who actually do a lot of work"? I would appreciate a reason to have some hope...
Fresh meat is just a term for someone new. This reminds me of when I used the word "zealot" on a forum back in the same era and someone was adamant that it came from Starcraft and wondered why I was making a Starcraft reference when talking about zealotry.
Real Dev Job: the third-party auth API is failing 0.1% of the time. Please figure this out. By the way our logging is also intermittently failing.
I've noticed this to be especially annoying with recordings that artificially inflate the bass. Yay for earbuds but it's a real pain in the ass when my car speakers rattle until I have to turn the sound down so low that road noise becomes an issue.

I like to listen to playlists on shuffle and the inconsistency between different albums has me fiddling with the bass on a song to song basis. Luckily my car has steering wheel controls for this. But most modern vehicles would have you fucking with a touch screen which is a non-starter while driving.
Post it as a throwaway. I'm very interested in hearing the other side. After all, a coin has three sides...
I really like the saying 'bell the cat' as well. Anyway, came here to say that I started to do this (create the missing documentation that would've been helpful for me) - it is by no means ready ( on mobile this site looks almost unreadable ) but it is a start: www.hugotutorial.com - if you have any feedback, I would love it!
With the current state of nutrition "science", all food standards are arbitrary. I don't eat any compound ingredients that didn't exist 2000 years ago. So far, my health is superb and I'm one of the few remaining people to not be overweight; I'm actually extremely fit and active.

The point is not that I'm right because it works for me; the point is that if you follow recommended diets from various governments, you'll end up on average worse than my entirely arbitrary made up diet I do to feel rustic. Government can be wrong about HFCS and seed oils being safe, and so instead of trusting them, I will just eat what is proven to be safe and wholesome across human history: meat, fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, fry in tallow, drink bone broth. Your appeal to science is precisely what I'm avoiding.
Are you by chance using a 3rd party kernel repo such as ElRepo to work around a limitation? Or could someone at your org be compiling a custom kernel?
I just can't get over the fact that there are so few actual books at Indigo now, that the mock living room sitting area set up in the middle of the store has billboard walls around it printed with murals depicting bookshelves.
That script is a well known hack to get Pro/Enterprise features on Windows Home version, in this case the Group Policy Editor. Not necessary for most users.
The numeric scanning sub is called NUMNUM. Love it.
It is certainly weak, but I think it meets the above-quoted description.

It only applies in certain cases, and only guarantees access to a minimal degree, but it is more than nothing.
It seems many people are missing one of the most important points:

This is reverse engineering of obfuscated javascript for the sake of interoperability with software which are not google(blink|geeko)/apple(webkit) browsers.

The real problem is the other way around: streaming services not providing support for noscript/basic (x)html browsers (with the <video> HTML element) should not be legal in the first place.

The only real technical issue is with seeking of streamed big videos: only HLS has a standard way to do that as far as I know (I may be wrong). Don't know for mpeg DASH. Because, a noscript/basic (x)html browser would pass the URI of a streamed big video to a media player and must know how to seek into it.
Don't throw your radios yet. AM, FM and SSB radio is still present, used for communication and used as actual permanent radio stations with music, news and so on. It slowed down significantly, for sure, but it's not dead. It's popularity spiked very recently in Europe once again during war times. BBC just renewed their broadcast on shortwave after ... 14 years of silence, to cover news on Ukrainian situation.
Stadia's problem was never technical, it was entirely due to bad management. The fact that they got games to play reasonably well at reasonably high resolutions is an impressive achievement, and it set the foundation to build a dominant gaming platform appealing to everyone. Then Stadia's management figured out a way to emphasize all of Stadia's weaknesses and play down its advantages and price it in such a way to appeal to nobody.

Stadia's failure to make an impact in the market despite its technical achievements brings to mind the proverb: An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
You conveniently left out the Russians/soviets.

And what you say about ottomans is also wrong. You should speak to historians in the affected countries.

Mongols - perhaps you are right, if you were left alive, which was mostly women and children. So I guess for them they got to live free in the mongol empire...?
I think the enemy should draft engineers, the more the better, nothing will slow them down more so than a bunch of grumpy devs trying to work together, likely kick off a civil war!
Why is the Linux kernel garbage? I thought Linux had decent security chops?
> doesn't make your take any more credible

it makes my awareness of the situation on the ground stronger

> 1) support censorship

of enemy's propaganda vehicle. wonder why would you omit that little fact. getting paid to do so?

> 2) don't care to verify stories

you lying sack of shit.

> 3) are under the impression that being Ukrainian makes your take automatically truthful

you lying sack of shit.
Well, one of the designers of RISC-V was Dave Patterson, who was also the main force behind MIPS 25-ish years earlier. So it's meant to be an improvement, a 5th generation RISC architecture, not just an equal alternative with a different license.

I don't know much about the differences, but the system of standardized extensions is pretty cool and makes the same base architecture applicable to a wider range of applications.

http://www.riscvbook.com/
I can also pay YouTube $0 a month and never see an ad again.

I do pay money for Nebula, because they seem like their hearts are in the right place. I pay about $60, 70 a month to various podcast and video creators directly.

I don't use adblock, vanced, and sponsorblock because I'm cheap. It's because I don't like what YouTube as a whole is doing with incentivising clickbait and maximising revenue above just being an unobtrusive platform.

I whitelist Alec at Technology Connections, Steve Mould, a couple of others, from the ad blocks, because they aren't on Nebula yet. They should be.
Right! I was referring to those who program on non-Windows platforms.
We are already paying Google with our data.
The work of reasonable Senators certainly does deserve recognition. That said, the article is talking about political leadership and holding that power. Those in the background are important but are not the leadership.
iPad on full brightness is not the same thing as an ereader. This study has some serious problems. I'm surprised there hasn't been a recent study with the current generation of ereaders (Kindle Oasis in particular) that measures melatonin level. Ideally, I'd like to see light levels calibrated to the same level between an eink device vs LED tablet vs an actual book vs a no bedtime reading condition.
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Barter?

You are describing a Hippie taking a holiday, perhaps.

I am in India and I never bargain, hate the pressure. You never have to bargain unless you are in a known tourist trap places, wanting to buy trinkets.
i cant find anyone saying anything about a CEO taking a political stance when they provide a service... is nobody seeing what is happening here? History (not the propaganda) should be a clue. What did happen in Germany? a specific people were denigrated and blocked from using services no? where did it lead? people who did not fall for the barbarism were classed as sympathisers and treated the same. it takes not a long time.

I am immune suppressant and a vaccine could kill me but what nearly killed me was the same behaviour here from a Corporation/s who stopped me from accessing services. And this move is the care and concern of people.... I will be moving to a REAL company with morals and brains.
Deployed the program via floppy. Edited the autoexec.bat to load the program straight away and interrupted any keyboard input such as Ctrl-C. Program layed dormant until the system clock reached a certain time then back to dos to format c:
1. He has in other talks, and he has used it as a way to explain away Russia's actions. As though they're an actor with no agency that can only react.

2. "NATO pushed" is deceptive framing. The countries that joined NATO after 1991 had to lobby hard over many years to get NATO members to agree to expand. Even then the process took forever with MAPs and other interim steps each designed to slow the process down.
Interesting, though I think this misses the whole story. (In particular, BART at peak hours was dangerously congested, though I won't argue with data showing that other uses declined enough that the average was below zero.)

But perhaps this speaks to your broader point about car ownership and public transit use. Even SF itself has more registered vehicles than inhabitants.

> There were 8% fewer transit (bus and rail) trips in the Bay Area in 2018 than in 1982

Btw, I'd be curious to read the source for this!
OK, I guess that he proved his point, but I think he is an absolute fool. Heels are highly impractical. Women wearing them trip all the time and you can't run in them. What if you found yourself in an emergency or self defense situation and you were wearing high heels?
Evidence of what, exactly? I can find you lots of evidence for hiding vulns, they don't even hide it - I'm sure Greg will admit to as much.

Evidence of this being helpful to attackers and not defenders? IDK, talk to anyone who does Linux kernel exploit development.

edit: There you go, Greg linked his policy, which explicitly notes this.
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

— C.A.R. Hoare, The 1980 ACM Turing Award Lecture
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The Puzzling Virus That Infects Almost Everyone
The Anglo-<pick a random group in that general area> wars are just the baggage that went with their colonization of the Indian subcontinent (including Pakistan) The idea of nation state borders didn't really work well in that part of the word in that century.

In any case they sure aren't interested in wasting returning to the region.

Pretty much all the other colonial powers have a similar "nope, not our problem any more" attitude toward meddling portions of their sphere or influence that they left because the locals made staying too expensive.

Algeria is across the pond and the French want nothing to do with it. Contrast with Russia which is constantly poking and occasionally invading its former sphere of influence.
Also, add that acting against current pressures in accordance with terrible ideologies often invokes the interest of future generations, or present generations in future years. Because it's a lot easier to justify your ideology and cronyism with reference to people we can't see yet because they're in the future, rather than people we can.

Going against the public for the benefit of future peoplke is something that in practice is worse than it sounds, because if you ignore the feedback of the general public, it's much easier to act in self-serving or blindly reckless ways, even if "the public is wrong this time".
How about Ubuntu?
What you’re seeing here is a place which is not 100% anti-Russia and recognizes that there are gray areas to anything. This is invaluable and anyone who values liberal democracies should support such discussion forums.

The problem is, many people only support liberal democracy and free speech when it suits them. This was very much visible when censoring and demonizing those that were criticizing vaccines or the policies of Western governments, it’s visible now too.
These days, Docker doesn't care about the underlying container runtime. You can use Docker to run containers in VMs with Firecracker, gVisor, Kata, etc. Security and multitenancy are their raison d'être.

You might have been right in 2014. In 2022, containers are most definitely a security mechanism.
For those not so technically inclined but still want to implement a bare version of levenstein distancing, I found the fuzzy wuzzy[1] python library.

I used it while at tesla to compare part numbers and obtain pricing variance.

https://pypi.org/project/fuzzywuzzy/
Christ. Can you imagine reading on a max brightness iPad in a dark room? I put my ereader (an actual ereader with an e-ink screen, not “ereader as in electronic thing you read on with a laptop screen” as in the article) on the lowest brightness setting with natural orange-tinted light. And I still feel like it’s pretty bright!
> So, it is OK to invade a country, and cause losses among its civilians, if the president of that country does not qualify for the western definition of democracy?

Yes, and any "definition of democracy" is questionable, either you have it or you don't.
Do you think that Saddam was in any "definition" a democratic president?

How about Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin, Putin?

> Also, both Chile or Guatemala were democracies when the US financed and organized the coups that deposed their elected presidents, just to put some friend dictator.

That was wrong, what can I say? I don't pretend US is a good guy, it is more gray. But in that color definition Russia is black, or at least very dark gray.

And no, I'm not US citizen.
It's not corruption, unless you consider the whole wage system for restaurant staff in the US to be corrupt. And as tips are paid at the end of service, the waiter doesn't know if you'll tip well or not while serving you.

Today, tips are paid because wait staff are paid below minimum wage. This is legal - as tipping is baked into their compensation. It's stupid and anachronistic, but it's not the fault of the staff (though GOOD waiters will often express support for the system because they fear going to fixed wage w/ zero tipping will reduce their income).

I'd much prefer a living wage with optional tips for extraordinary service (which seems to be the norm in much of western Europe). Here in the US, 20% gratuity is pretty much expected. And FWIW, I'll pay 25-30% for good service, and to get less than 20%, a waiter would have to be downright awful.
I don't think OP was commenting on the value of a soldier's life, just the fact that general infantry is a job pretty much any healthy individual can do. If you wander down the streets and pick the first 1,000 people you see, chances are a good number of them would qualify.

But if you try to give those same 1,000 people a software job, most of them would be terrible. Hell, most people employed as software engineers seem kind of bad at it. It isn't the type of job that lends itself to a draft.

Of course, you aren't limited to just the first 1,000 people you see. Maybe you ask FAANG for a list of their engineers, and randomly take 10% of them. Good goddamned luck with that. Google has had trouble getting their own engineering teams on board with DOD work. You try to draft those engineers? You will see a vindictive pettiness unmatched in human history. It would be the least productive engineering team ever assembled.

[1] Well, that used to be true. The general health of the American public isn't great right now, either.
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