skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure if this is troll-y bait post, but I'll take it.

It's quite ironic that you seem to praise Donald Trump while at the same time write

> I hate liars. And I don’t mean innocent lies, I mean gross purely political lies, because not at lies (or omissions) are really bad things. Is it low self confidence on America’s end though? Why is everyone so deluded.

Clearly you didn't follow the Trump presidency closely enough to notice that every third word was a lie for purely political ends, and that those words were spoken from the mouth of a textbook sociopath with zero qualms about it.

But aside from that, all the problems that you mention (overdose, suicide, obesity, etc) are much slower, and much more deeply personal (largely involving families who suffer from the effects in private) than a nuclear power invading another country for a land grab. Its not something to "speak out" about, though it's good to bring awareness around health. It's more complicated than that.
> Russians themselves are more prepared to endure hardship

do they have a choice?
I doubt incompetence from the Polish government was all that unexpected by the other members of NATO. Nor would I consider worldwide banking sanctions within a week “flat-footed”. I do agree we live in interesting times, and perhaps the the great Chthulhu will be joining us shortly.
I agree some people hide behind uncertainty and "weasel" in order to avoid accountability for anything they say.

What that requires though is they caveat everything.

I really respect people who say they are 99% sure and 60% sure when appropriate.

It requires a level of honesty not just to the audience but to the self to admit openly what you are and aren't sure about.
> the people often vote against their own interests

the people who died under mao aren't the ones who voted for the policies that lead to them dying.
Putin Needs an Off Ramp
Hi!

I think what happened is you clicked “Build My Site!” without entering a git repository in the text input field.

Right now building sites isn’t private, and there is no authentication, so you could iterate the id numbers, and you could see build logs and from those pages. If a git repository has been used before, instead of building a new website, it brings you to the status panel to rebuild it and it is rebuilt on the same sub domain. That specific one — id 9, looks to be the first time someone clicked the build button without entering any repository, anyone else who does that would be redirected to that page.
DIY Custom Maps for Print and Reference
I actually wasn't transpiling to JS, I was running the Dart VM. VS Code + standard Dart extensions works great for debugging.
Apple will unlock it if it’s an obvious mistake like this case - seems like the replacement phone’s activation policy wasn’t set to what the original phone had.

However in the OP’s case it won’t help - this isn’t a bug, it’s Best Buy scamming customers by selling them locked phones and passing them off as unlocked. Apple will just tell you to contact Best Buy.
I hedge a lot in HN comments. Uncharitably, because I’m thinking defensively about how people respond to my comments. Charitably, because it’s more accurate that way.

Long-form content suffers from hedging more that HN comments do. As a writer, you may think highly of your confidence level, and you may want to communicate the difference between a claim that you’re confident about and a claim that you are unsure about, but the right way to do that is to provide the information necessary for other people to come to the same conclusion. If that’s not possible, or it’s not germane, or you’re just busy doing something else, then you don’t do it, and that’s okay. It’s often just irrelevant for people to understand how much you believe something.

The tradeoff I see here is between clarity and precision. If you focus too much on precision, the clarity of whatever you’re trying to say suffers.
Where would you say you sit on the physical-dimensions bell curve?

I'd hope that the more expensive chair has better adjustability to suit a wider range of critical dimensions than the cheaper chair. But that may not matter for a lot of people.
John Mearsheimer on why the West is principally responsible for Ukrainian crisis
Grabs wheel, jerks hard left:

Oh my those are some fun images! The art on a lot of Amazon listings are just hillarious. Some are down right creepy. The 6th image for this listing has a very intersting bit of text on the screen in what I'm guessing a slide in a deck??? My favorites are the ones where the "product" is just photoshopped in with Escher level physics required to make it believable.
They’d help in the same way a raindrop helps to fill a pond. Maybe if the US sends a few hundred nuclear aircraft carriers to Europe it would help.
Keep in mind that unlike legacy modem-level carrier locks that merely disable the modem, Apple’s implementation won’t even allow you to proceed past the setup screen without satisfying the SIM lock system first. The phone is literally a brick without it.
Reminds me of wtfhappenedin1971, although this is arguably less bad because it at least has some prose
Thanks, should have guessed, but I tend to assume the worst these days
Are you really trying to sleep in a room with that type of LEDs, or do you just really hate all things LED?
The “Myth of the Model Minority” Is Just an Average
I would be surprised if the Chinese aid to Russia were anything but symbolic. The continuation of this war and the tensions with the West are not in the Chinese interest.
Did it remind you of the bad parts of Java, or was it a more superficial resemblance? When I've used Java, what bothered me was the apparent overabstractions and complicated frameworks for simple things. I've never seen that in Dart.

I feel like Dart gets me reasonably close to the kind of elegant, intuitive code I can write in Python...but with static typing.
At the very least Apple should’ve had big visible warnings displayed right on the boot screen for locked devices so that scummy carriers can’t “accidentally” sell locked phones as unlocked to unsuspecting customers.

But then again it took them ages to even introduce a settings menu to be able to tell which carrier a given phone was locked to; previously there was no way to know without bruteforcing with all the SIMs and Apple Support explicitly refused to tell you.

Apple may look like the good guys on the outside but they’re absolutely in bed with the carriers.
Yeah... the numbers on that... not so much.

Edit: I don't mean for this to sound ad hominem or overly pointed, but I've been shocked a lot lately--in the context of all these boycott discussions and so forth--by a widespread lack of basic energy density literacy.

I'm no physicist myself, but I think the world could use a fast lesson in just how much energy is stored in oil and gas, and in concepts like EROEI. Without it, it's very hard to put the relative quantities in perspective and understand why it's so difficult to eliminate, substitute or reduce fossil fuel use, or why ramping up production or retooling for different inputs is something that happens more in decade time-scales than weeks or months...

As sibling comments have intimated, the amount of power required even for a midsize city vs. what a small nuclear reactor on an aircraft carrier could provide is just stupefying. It's a microscopic contribution. Moreover, the energy in a single 42 gal barrel of refined oil (~5.8 million BTUs) is enormous. Matching that in any kind of reasonable way is not impossible, but it's an insanely difficult problem with no quick or easy solutions.
Nintendo 3DS Synthesizer and Sequencer (live demo)
There's a fundamental difference - nobody created land, and the value that you are capturing is of your neighbors producing it. You can buy an empty plot of land, do nothing on it, and then sell it for double you bought it for 10 years later. Someone else could have had a use for that land. That's obviously hoarding. It doesn't rot.

Stocks are less egregious for this trait as it's just zeros and ones, but the fact remains that if you want to hold value, you must invest in something. For a typical person who just wants to store their labor and not make a bet, they are unable to. Back in medievil times when population and productivity were flat, the money supply was flat, and there was no need to invest to store. There's nothing other than politics saying that it can't be true again today, the math just might be trickier, but I think we can handle that.
How many people outside of production work a) knows what gaff is, b) where to get it, c) uses it with a pair of scissors?
What's the status on allowing all addons and devtools on Brave for Android? I switched away from brave to another browser because those features were stripped out.
The Goal – Vaccinate 70% of the World Against Covid – Scientists Re-Think
How are you detecting users of lovation?
UC Davis researchers develop a new type of cooling cube
do they do anything for motion sickness? the one time i tried i spent the hour trying not to throw up
Russia could be pretty desperate now.
I guess it can get complicated, but most of the software I've written I gracefully handle missing user relationships so that it's possible to delete the user. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these circumstances are just because the software can't handle a missing user relationship, nothing nefarious. Stupidity before malice and all that.
Got some links to the forks? Would be interested to check them out.
It isn't about supply and demand at all, but about another, even more basic, economic concept: incentives, and a second relatively modern economic concept, information asymmetries.[1] Over-summarising and over-simplifying:-

"Third-party service providers are incentivised to minimise their costs. If their clients cannot assess the quality of their service and/or end-users cannot reward or penalise them based on the quality of the services, then quality is poor, because it is cheaper to not provide services and later argue about it than to provide the service. Third party deficiencies/misbehaviour get so bad sometimes that there are no gains from trade and occasional losses.

"Internally, inside companies, the incentives may be to act similarly to third-parties, or they may not. This depends on "culture"."

And here the essay would be improved with an analysis of the compnents of "culture" that matter. It talks about trustworthiness of company leadership, but that is only one factor, surely.

1. Akerlof's "Market for Lemons" paper is the seminal one here.
The point of getting off Russian gas is to stop subsidizing genocide. So why support a currency whose main purpose is international money laundering? (Secondary purpose: asset bubbles) It would be counterproductive to the goal to give Russia a bigger way to participate in the global economy through crypto.

Note I mean purpose of cryptocurrency itself from a systems perspective, not the purpose of those who made it.
Yeah, I think that's a fair assessment. The value that Russian civic culture places on protests, demonstrations and complaints of all kinds is, as you say, rather different.
Of course, when times get hard people repent.
> There's a reason why human babies tend to look like their fathers, not their mothers.

This is the first time I’ve heard of this! I have to say I’m quite skeptical.

Is there more information you can add? And why would it only affect human babies?
https://render.com/
Last time this happened it put pressure on an already failing program that basically damaged the brains of a lot of kids for life -

How a Tsunami in Japan Endangered Children in Cambodia - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/health/tsunami-japan-camb...

There needs to be a global watch on iodised salt, programs that weaken because of consumers buying potassium iodide are not resilient enough anyway. These incidents are showing the problems. I can't image these programs have strengthened during the two years of pandemic.
From what I've read the fumble was the result of a difference of opinion and poor communication between the U.S. State Department (more aggressive) and the Pentagon (more risk averse). Poland just got caught in the middle.

EDIT: The second instance of being flat-footed I was referring to was entering intense diplomatic dialogue with China in an attempt to get them to avoid making any concrete commitments, and then discovering (based on direct and indirect feedback during talks) that China is already much further down that road than we assumed.
Hard for me to say. But my point was this: where a Western government would be seriously imperiled by so much as inconveniencing its consumers in a substantial way for a prolonged period, that is certainly not true in Russia.
E15 to 20 is gonna be ultra rough on a lot of engines! My car would perform extremely poorly on it, and the ethanol is lower energy density and expensive to produce. The US is finding out the ethanol program isn't really a gain. Not sure of the loss and hopefully it's minor.
Are you confusing the Find My iPhone feature or Activation Lock?

None of these depend on the SIM besides a SIM change triggering a re-check of the activation lock status (it’ll just ask you for your Apple ID credentials).

Carrier lock is not something the user has easy visibility on (until recently it wasn’t even possible to tell which carrier a phone was locked to without trying them all) and definitely no control over.
It proves they are based out of the US and lost a court case. If I owned the company I would do the same if nothing else but to preserve capital.
This definitely qualifies as one of those things I often wonder "what were they smoking when the thought of this, and where can I get some?". I'd love to be a fly on the wall in pitch meetings or see The Sharks be pitched this. However, I love that you can just wake up in your nitehood, adjust to be on the on the go, and one more adjustment to rob the stage coach or money train with your gang of outlaws.
Eastern Europe already knew about this - hence one of the first LNG terminals in the world, conversion from burning oil to biomass for heating, power links to nordics. So much resistance and criticism back then, quiet now.
Why are software tool vendors so horrible?
They have a choice of going to the streets demanding government change.

The thing is that they are happy with where they are and actually many believe in current country's values: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_world
This varies a lot by pages per shift. If you get paged less than once per shift on average, it would be a worse outcome for everyone if you shifted to follow the sun. If you get paged 70 times per shift, yes, that needs some rethinking. The trick is how to move from 70 per shift to less than 1 per shift. I am not sure your approach would lead to that outcome.
> The ability to hit Win+Shift+S, screenshot a part of the screen, then immediately paste it somewhere? Huge. MacOS has nothing like this

Ctrl+Shift+Cmd+4 (default shortcut, you can change it to Cmd+Shift+S, if you wish)
So you’re saying enough people to swing 20 electors, who weren’t already planning to vote for Trump, went to a Trump rally organized by Russian proxies, and were convinced to vote for him because of this rally?

That sounds… Unlikely.
> I bet most people are willing to suffer an energy crisis with the hope that it will stop earlier.

and yet, the war is not really contingent on people suffering this energy crisis - it's merely a possibility. Putin can still wage the war and the only true response europe can have is to wage war in return.

War in response to putin will be even harder to swallow after the people have suffered a year of energy rationing i reckon. When your house is cold and food scarce, the people in europe is more likely to be willing to accept appeasement.
There’s more to the story though - Google is actually collateral damage in this case and had nothing to do with locking the phone.

Best Buy scammed them by selling them a phone that automatically locks itself to the first carrier it sees, which is T-Mobile since Fi runs on that.

A small claims court case against Best Buy or even a warranty claim should sort it.
Anyone have an un-paywalled link?
I've used home assistant for 4 years. After being fed up with constant breakages, I moved to Hubitat. It's a closed source separate appliance, but it's very capable, fully local and reliable (used it for 1.5 year now, with 0 issues). And not breaking things is taken much more seriously there.

But dashboard sucks beyond imagination. If you need any fancy UI - stay away. If you need pure automation - take a serious look at it.
I've seen toots about this on Mastodon! I'm glad to see it get some attention!
I've found some fairly reliable repos in the past, or https://t1.gstatic.com/faviconV2?client=SOCIAL&type=FAVICON&... still works (but for how long)
It's not such a mystery. A lot of the policies were decided from a combination of shorter-term political calculus and a rather optimistic view about the harmonising effects of the liberal economic order, globalism, free trade, democracy, interdependence, peace dividends, and other Thomas Friedman things.

It's easy to forget now after a few years of erratic Trump and populist protectionism talk, but it was not long ago at all that was basically conventional wisdom in the US, too.
Pretty much impossible with Apple unless they know someone crooked within Apple or the locking carrier.

It’s not like modem locks where calculating an NCK code is sufficient - here the phone will regularly check in with Apple and the response tells it whether the SIM is allowed. It’s enforced at the OS level, and ironically, the modem itself is never locked.
It's worth noting that nobody lived on a farm before humans started doing agriculture.
That’s false.

If that were the case, nobody could use new features unless all three major browser engines supported them at the same time and that’s clearly not happening.

It’s pretty easy to use @supports to check for feature support. CSS and HTML are pretty resilient with code they don’t understand.

Remember Chrome ships things all the time other browsers don’t support but that’s okay for some reason…
The lottery system they put in place assumes that everyone is equally able to succeed and the only drawback is related to not being able to get in. But the reasons are so much more. They need to look into getting a support system that helps those that start to struggle. Problems which include both in school issues as well as outside school issues. Otherwise it's just wishful thinking that all accepted students will be able to perform at an elite level. There also needs to be a way to expel those that just can't make it. Otherwise, as it's happening at the school, the school's elite status falls apart. Making things worse for everyone involved.
Relevant: "Despite their destructive appearances even intense forest fires do not actually consumer much biomass. Only 0.1%–3.2%, since the larger trees and thicker branches that make up most of the biomass in a forest are good at resisting fires"[0]

[0]https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1503583221510184962?s...
+1 for the blackout curtains. Easily 20% better sleep.

And our only source of light at night prior was a street light outside our bedroom window.
Aaaand they introduced WebGL bugs that broke our product, and iPhone users will experience these bugs until we can hack a workaround in, or until Apple acknowledges a bug report (that I have to make a minimal test case for and report, and haven't narrowed down yet), patches the issue in Safari, and decides if it's important enough to release as a 15.4.1 (which they probably won't, which means I'm stuck finding a workaround) - or if it comes out in iOS 16, then a good chunk of our users will never get the fix - so I'm stuck finding a workaround, still.

The bundling of Safari versions with iOS, combined with the draconian policy of "Safari is the only legal rendering engine on iOS", bites me every day as a developer that's working on a mobile site for iDevices.
I see Ruby used pretty frequently in small parts of larger systems. I looked at a customer’s project last week and they were using Ruby to parse incoming e-mail.
My favorite part about my steelcase is the adjustable lumbar but really all I need is the seat to go up and down.
Firefox’s release cycles switched from six weeks to four weeks a few years ago. Chrome and Firefox are both on four week release cycles, so Firefox’ version number won’t overtake unless Mozilla or Google change something.

They’ll both hit version 100 in just a month or two. If too many websites are broken because they never expected a browser’s User-Agent string to have a version number with more than two digits, Chrome or Firefox might need to freeze the version number advertised in the User-Agent string.
Some heat pumps are useable at -20C and are widely sold around north. In fact Lithuania subsidises if you replace coal furnace with heat pump.

It’s kinda replacing home scale geothermal installs too.
Looks very pleasing. I wonder what they use to create these.
Not required by the GDPR... so they will not.
> Why are Americans throwing tantrums over a couple incidents of collateral damage in the war, but not our own people dying? 66k fentanyl overdoses will happen this year. It’s all coming from the border. 46k suicides. And the rest obesity.

Because those people kill themselves. I'm obese and it is frankly my fault as I am lazy. If I take drugs, it is also my fault.

I am fine with helping such people, but we are in large part the makers of our own misfortune.
Or we could take both the intelligence reports and China's pronouncements at face value. COVID-19 has already tremendously disrupted trade, and Trump's earlier trade war helped reveal both the extent and the cost of reduced trade flows. China could easily have come to the assessment, in light of both situations, that the U.S. has much more to lose than does China, especially while China is still in the midst of COVID-19 self-isolation. They may simply have decided to call our bluff, just like they did with Trump. (This is the risk with flippantly showing all your cards.) Similarly, a world economic order with a diminished US dollar is to China's advantage, so China may see this as a potentially favorable strategic inflection point.

Either way, it all just adds more kindling. The momentum is definitely building in the wrong direction, which sadly has been the consistent pattern over the past 3 weeks.
When will they support webp on macOS 10? I guess never?
They thought they could make Russia dependent on their money, and thus encourage russia to integrate with the EU.
Except with Google, Google keeps committing the sins, and when even informed that they are doing it, executives at Google just respond "working as intended, WONTFIX".
The extra cash is not because Firefox is more successful, it's an additional bribe from Google so they can point to an alternative browser when governments come after them for browser anti-trust.

Most of their non-Firefox pet projects have been failures.

Implying she joined in December 2019 is seriously underplaying her role before then. [1]

Her accomplishments as CEO are tanking growth, a slew of failed projects, massive layoffs and the expansion of obnoxious full-page banner ads baked into the browser.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Mozilla_Foundat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sentinel_Island

Go ask them.
Alaska seems quite developed from the Fairbanks to Anchorage corridor, but you don't have to go far off the highway for it to be complete wilderness. I spent some time there and you'd drive on roads for miles and then they just end - in the sense the road doesn't go any further and everything after that is pretty much wilderness with maybe a few unused logging roads.