skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article annoyed me with its focus on the pair of women who message each other like Tumblr pals and apparently find themselves the most interesting people on the planet.

But it grew on me, if only through the gravity of schadenfreude, and I read the whole thing.

What stood out to me the most was this:

> as American life reconfigures itself, we may find ourselves rethinking whether our spouses and children are the only ones who deserve our binding commitments

This brought to mind a pair of entertainers[] who:

* Have been close friends since 1st grade

* Are now in their 40s

* Have been creative partners for about 2 decades

* Have been business partners for over a decade

* When they were teenagers, performed an actual blood oath (cut themselves and mingled their blood) promising that they would create something great together

* Now have dozens of employees and a loyal following of millions

* Alternately describe their friendship as a brotherhood and as a "second marriage".

I am deeply inspired by and jealous of their relationship, and think that this "friendship as commitment" model is dreadfully important.

We might benefit from formalization of this type of relationship through institutions (think fraternal organizations--but instead, "philial organizations").

[] Rhett & Link https://open.spotify.com/episode/2DNxju3SrXATFdhd1SzH1A
They're still in NATO, and that's far more relevant to the issue at hand.
Yeah I have friends like that and you talk to them for 10 minutes and its great until straight away they're off to catch up with someone else.
And a waste of time and water and of opportunity cost.
Static electricity can keep desert solar panels free of dust
Think of it as a “bluenose” law, intended to protect their right-thinking sensibilities.
It has been all over the news, so it won't sabotage anything. Most elderly people from the south-east of Ukraine wouldn't be able to pronounce it as well as they mostly have a very spotty command of Ukrainian.
I constantly hear Product Owners say that it's okay and acknowledged that ultimately, you hit walls with no-code/low-code. There was no button to do Thing X, so you just can't do it. But did anyone validate this with the end user? Is this actually what they want?
We use S2 extensively in our infrastructure, and open-sourced our Node.js TypeScript bindings for Google's reference C++ lib: https://github.com/radarlabs/s2. (More context about how and why here: https://radar.com/blog/open-source-node-js-typescript-s2-lib...)
Thank you for catching that, it has been fixed now.

We had just moved from .md to .adoc and this was a missed link.
AX.25 on a Raspberry Pi
Security Week 2022
You are asking the wrong questions. Care about your product and customers, not about founder beauty contests!
And where I live in New England, it will grow to very tall grass, brush, and eventually trees which you really don't want right up to the house because it's a potential fire hazard and you can't easily even walk around the house through it after a while. I don't have most of my property mowed (just basically a band around the house) and I don't apply weed killer/water to it. I do have someone knock the field down with a tractor brush hog once a year so it doesn't transition to forest which it would on its own.
> Microsoft has made a business decision to cripple the c# support in vscode to prop up their visual studio division.

I don't think Microsoft cares which tools developers use as long as the result ends-up deployed in Azure.

This is remarkably similar to their old strategy of supporting the ecosystem of Windows applications and then monetizing on Windows licenses.
> I suspect the venom is because people are assuming that its a binary situation, you're either a remote company or not.

That's because it's true. You're either a remote company or the remote people find that they routinely hear about things much later than everyone in the office knows about them.
Well, if you do something that doesn’t match what 90% (or for Dvorak, more like 99.99%) of society does, especially if it is in a way that is incompatible, you end up having to do both ways or suffer significant friction in everyday life if it is a common skill or requirement.

It does open some unique niches, but it’s also easy to oversell that advantages while ignoring the disadvantages.

Dvorak is even less useful than being a leftie (since lefties still have the same hands in the same orientation), it’s more like if someone switched/mirrored the hands themselves.

Which, if everyone had the same setup would be fine. But since not everyone does, better get used to constantly switching and adjusting things.
You would be missing the amazing Mavis Staples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuCF7BtGrEI
Bosch/Siemens actually have really good website for buying spare parts and they sell them at reasonable prices even to consumers, and even for things that cost <50€.
Hey, I'm looking to understand why my article submissions are being flagged. Any insight would be helpful so that I can avoid the same mistakes. I've included the articles below:

[flagged] The Advantage of Decentralized Domain Names (web.properties)

[flagged] Top NFT Sales (web.properties)
> Startups will soon follow suit, since GS is a major investor.

I don’t see this happening. GS interests in real estate and churning finance folk in and out, have nothing to do with their riskier investment priorities.

Also, GS is not a major player in the venture capital landscape.
I understand lawn mowing, what I don't understand is people mowing tiny bits of grass with powered mowers.

I use a push mower, about once a week (and I leave the clippings on the lawn). It's really enjoyable.
I tried this move but I really missed the way LastPass asks you to save a new password created on a new service. On Bitwarden I felt like I had to save the account first before progressing to actually creating the account. LastPass "just knew" and would prompt me after going to the next screen. Has this changed it all since I last tried it a year or so ago?
- Java -> wasm
pass is just a shell script. it does not consume any resources. maybe you are referring to something else ?
I think the WHO and CDC have to do a lot of trust building over a lot of years if they want people to start taking them seriously again. I'm glad I'm living in a state that isn't waiting for the CDC to tell us that we can start living our lives again.
People should have rights. Governments should not be allowed to tell people what to do, as long as they’re not harming others.

In my book, allowing you to buy a device without replaceable batteries, a choice that you made freely yourself, is not causing harm.

Saying that “people want it” is not good enough. The majority may also want to silence the minority. That’s why we have rights.
"Cravath" reminds me of this scene: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7m388YypnEA
We’re planting clover in our park strip to augment the lawn.

We had some naturally move in last year and we really liked it So we’re going to help it out. It was soft, and keeping the lawn green/alive/pretty in the park strip is notoriously water wasteful.
Competition between companies is what drives prices down, not regulation.

Companies don't make more money if governments force them to use technology that is more expensive to build.
I've been looking for a replacement for OneTab. The import/export functionality is broken (doesn't carry over the tab group titles) and although not everyone would like that, I'd prefer to have cross-device sync.

I've been considering https://github.com/sienori/Tab-Session-Manager, not sure if folks have tried that and would/would not recommend.

As for password manager, I'm happy with Bitwarden. I came across https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden recently, but I'm not currently self-hosting.
Looks like 3.5" external floppy drives (USB) are still readily available for about $25-30.

5.25 floppy drives are a lot thinner on the ground.
Self-balancing may have been revolutionary, but not as revolutionary as the PC, which is how it was playing out in the news at the time (pre-announcement). Though maybe that's a matter of opinion, but I doubt most people think that a self-balancing scooter is going to change the world, which is how it was getting hyped up. The hype really did help kill it because expectations were way too high, and the cost ($5000 or so, used car prices), and then it ended up with the public image as the thing tourists and mall cops used.
Group catastrophic, like all other insurance, is negative expected value in first-order effects, but improves predictability.

This is not fundamentally different from low-deductible policies. (Which may do more, proportionately to cost, to improve predictability if most variance is the number of frequency of low-cost events)
Geo-thermal is a little bit geographically dependent, but by far not as much as you make it sound. Hydro is indeed very geo-dependent, no contest there.

Large-scale electrolysis is not unproven. E.g. Air Liquide operates a 20MW plant producing 3000t/annum near Quebec already[0]. Other projects in development aim for 200MW facilities. Granted, that isn't yet massive scale, just about 99,000 MWh/annum of usable energy (about 33kWh/kg for hydrogen), and the smallest US nuclear plant is theoretically capable of 5,098,320 Mwh/annum or around 50 times more. But large scale enough to act as a proof of concept in my opinion.

Pumped storage is a bit geo-dependent, but you do not need an alpine lake, you need an empty space somewhat higher up where you can pump some water, preferably without loosing too much water due to evaporation and other factors, and some water, preferably fresh water to avoid corrosion as much as possible, maybe desalinated. But if need be salt water and an artificial hill will do.

As for the deployment and logistics of nuclear, it is certainly a problem. Our current grids, independent from the form of electricity generation, are usually not designed to handle the growing demand that electrification probably will create. You can see what happens when the demand somewhat suddenly rises (and the EV introduction is still somewhat "sudden" in the time scales grid operators and infrastructure planners usually consider) e.g. in Kazakhstan when the Chinese bitcoin miners moved there[1]. Furthermore, planning, building and testing new nuclear plants is a massive capital expenditure even without technology research, as well as a political hot topic in a lot of places (and even in nuclear-friendly regions I'd bet that NIMBYs would form real quick once a location for a new plant gets discussed).

Last thing I read by the way is that the EU gets about 20% of the Uranium it uses to fuel existing nuclear plants from Russia (at least until now), with another ~20% coming from Kazakhstan[2], which is somewhat closely allied to (and for sure scared of) Russia. Another ~20% come from Niger, a country not exactly renowned for being a politically stable and human-rights respecting nation. Maybe the EU can source elsewhere, even if the demand increases as potentially more nuclear within the EU goes online, but it surely has a rather problematic political dimension attached aside from general nuclear politics such a nuclear proliferation. And it's not just the EU which needs to switch to electrification, either. Where will Africa or Latin America or Asia get their nuclear tech and nuclear fuel?

Nuclear, like oil, creates international political dependencies in a lot of places, while most renewables would not necessarily do the same.

[0] https://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights/en/market-insigh...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-25/kazakhsta...

[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Here are the available 'details' on harelang.

> Hare is a systems programming language designed to be simple, stable, and robust. Hare uses a static type system, manual memory management, and a minimal runtime. It is well-suited to writing operating systems, system tools, compilers, networking software, and other low-level, high performance tasks.

A code example:

use io;
export fn main() void = {
const greetings = [
"Hello, world!",
"¡Hola Mundo!",
"Γειά σου Κόσμε!",
"Привет, мир!",
"こんにちは世界！",
];
for (let i = 0z; i < len(greetings); i += 1) {
io::println(greetings[i]);
};
};

And a list of Design principles

Trust the programmer.
Provide tools the programmer may use when they don't trust themselves.
Prefer explicit behavior over implicit behavior.
A good program must be both correct and simple.

Without any elaboration on "Provide tools the programmer may use" assuming that these will relate to language concepts of constructs, there's no differentiating it from many of the well-established 'better C' languages. If there's anything we've learned it's that anything close to C in the area of "Trust the programmer" leads to broken software and we need to aim higher.
> So, you've moved away from having a language with elements that can be combined in infinite ways, toward something more like a MadLibs, where you can make some meaningful choices only within a strict framework somebody else has made for you. Or, if that's not fair, then a more generous analogy would be something like writing free verse compared to writing a sonnet. You're using the same language, but one option is much more constraining.

To be honest, I don't think this is a valid analogy as you are comparing apples and oranges. One is a tool to build simple CRUD interfaces which is typically used to quickly build business applications, and another is a coding language which provides lots of flexibility but is significantly slower to create an application and is much more complex to build.

IMO a good solutions designer or architect will be able to identify which solutions/problems will be better solved in a low-code environment and visa-versa. It's not a 'one is better than the other', programming languages will be better for some problems and low-code solutions will be better for others.
This has dozens of links in it, almost none of which (maybe exactly none of which) really support the point in a meaningful way other than to say "this thing exists" or "something that sounds the same, that may or may not be the same, exists", or "here's an earlier article of mine that you also will have to refute in order to argue with me".
I'm in my 50s now and found this just about 100% matches my own observations, experiences, and conclusions. Almost all friendships are based on circumstances that bring people together. When those circumstances change, those friendships fade pretty quickly.
> I don't really care if she's real or not

I don't understand comments like this. Why go through the effort of articulating your lack of interest in a topic? "I have no intellectual curiosity about this topic, but I figure I should still comment letting the world know I have no interest in this".
those calls are easily recorded on the server, your speech transcribed with reasonable accuracy and searchable. Both Zoom and Microsoft Teams offer the live transcribe.

Whatever it is, it isn't for 'off the books' conversations.
Ask HN: Should having just political borders and no social borders help?
If the world follows a system of just political borders and remove social borders, will that reduce the fallout of wars?

In ideal situation I would have said that removing all borders will reduce major conflicts. But we don't live in an ideal world. The "ruling class" will not want to let go of the borders for political reasons. But removing social borders(i.e. allowing people to move across the world unhindered) will help disconnect the masses from the classes. Most of the major wars are started by the classes and millions from the masses die due to that. If the social borders are removed, it will be very difficult for the classes to drag the masses into conflicts due to political reasons/borders. In that case the wars are then relegated to a very small section of the society and hence will be limited and of smaller duration.

with political borders comes jurisdiction, so even if social borders are removed there won't be problem of criminals going unpunished. We do have present structures such as local justice system, international courts etc in place to tackle those issues.
Dead with COVID =/= Dead from COVID.

Every study seems to ignore this and includes data from a variety of sources mixing the two.
This is nowhere near "relativistic" in velocity.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll be working on it for sure. At least an explanatory screencast is in the works now, other info material, use cases, etc. are planned.
> it keeps those populations in check

This is an interesting word choice to use as pollinators approach endangerment.

Akin to suggesting that deer hunting season should be extended until there are no longer any deer near roadways in FL.
I'm in favor of a not-for-profit healthcare system, but how will such a system prevent future pandemics?
Tor is super easy to use on phones these days. On Android you can just install the Tor Browser app.
On the positive side, it's entirely possible that the transformation discussed in the article will happen faster without the UK meddling from the inside, and outsiders using anti-EU feeling to undermine the bloc, and that being an EU satellite before being re-absorbed will be much better for the average Brit. I guess we'll find out.
Almost as if most people don’t care enough about replaceable batteries?
This number is in line with the estimate made by The Economist.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-...

(20M global excess deaths, vs 6M official covid deaths).

To be clear: we're talking about global excess deaths here (i.e. deaths due to covid in a direct or indirect way), not direct deaths.

This analysis struck me in terms of how many people may have died from covid indirectly.
I'd hardly call it a dystopia... That's some hyperbole. It wasn't great for a lot of people but far from a dystopia. QoL went up in the US by many measures (I know the US is not the world).
It's a mix of white and pink, mostly white though. I also planted some creeping thyme and I keep a lot unmowed with some wildflowers. I have a decent sized lawn (little over 1/2 acre), but a good chunk of it is taken up by a septic system.
This is the challenge of measuring COVID deaths. Did these people die because of COVID?

* someone who committed suicide after going bankrupt because of COVID.

* someone who died of cancer because they couldn’t get a hospital appointment
Does anyone happen to know how to stop firefox from deleting failed/incomplete downloads?
What does a conflict that started two weeks ago have to do with the construction time of a reactor that has taken 17 years to build.

You also don't seem to realize the other reason, and the primary reason, to lockdown is to lighten the peak load on hospitals, in response to waves of infection.
>If Hong Kong is any indicator of what's coming in China, the scale of that wave will have serious consequences on the country if they continue to insist on enforcing their stringent (and heartless) zero-covid policy.

Imagine how funny it'd be if China really had deliberately released covid from a lab, but it ended up screwing up China more than any other countries.
> The past two years have been a dystopia for the entire planet

I must be living on a different planet then.

> but forcing everyone to live in fear is not the solution

Nobody forced me. I could have gone into the office. But why should I have?

Being vaxxed and boostered the risk is relatively low. Still I don't go back. The last two years were the most free of all in my career. I missed theater. And concerts. But regarding work. Or weekly food shopping with distance or click and collect were a boon.

Do I expect that to be true for everybody? Hell no.

Everybody has a different view. Projecting ones view onto the planet probably dies not help us discuss in good faith.
A LOT of the HOA president types are retired and stay at home a lot, and watch things like a hawk.

I would expect a decent number of them to consider throwing ‘invasive’ seeds onto their lawns some kind of terrorist act. And almost all of them would comb over every legal resource they could find to try to nail you with something over it.

This is definitely a case where you’d be better off just avoiding it entirely.
Based on my limited experience, VCs could be dissuaded from investing in co-ops by:

1. No prospects of a big payout (IPO, acquisition).

2. VCs like to have a single point-of-contact (the CEO) and few other owners. In a start-up, the CEO is answerable and serves only the investors. Co-ops behave more like a member-driven organization whose obligation is first and foremost to its members.

3. No option for majority ownership. A co-op eventually has to be majorly owned by the employees rather than by investors.
> geographical coordinates

So, what do you do for a remote meeting with participants in different places? You’d have to decide on one location. Specifying Paris when you are really in Toulouse isn’t much different. Yes, your meeting is now bound to Paris time, but at least it remains consistent with that.

Furthermore, having had to work with call routing based on geolocation, I can tell you that geo coordinates aren’t always enough, due to inaccurate zip code and area code divisions and other factors.