skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we at least right-size the police?
Having used LSD a number of times many years ago, and having been in the US Army in a war zone, I can say that combat is most certainly not a place for people on LSD. For either side.
Nah yeah that's fair enough. Definitely that's may be problem for some people. Surely we could "tune" this with better chemistry, tho?

The vector part is really interesting tho. How can you reliably dose a mass population in an urban environment? The limitations of gas have already been discussed (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30685608). My idea about "cluster darts from drones" sounds 'good' but seems like it could have some serious technical issues / pitfalls. I think a "natural agent" like a virus is the best way.
One way is to enable a global `LD_PRELOAD=libtsocks.so` (transparent socks) environment variable where you provide an optionally suid (to allow suid binaries to use it if you want) library that overrides `connect`, etc. and forwards them to your socks proxy. Make sure you get ipv4 and ipv6 support if you care. This is not bullet proof by any means. Any application that doesn't using the C library (e.g. go) will not proxy, but most things will.
There is no reason to present a personal attack with your non-argument. As I said before in other threads there are alternative ways they can receive grants for funding of Tor projects without endorsing crypto scams. I mentioned Mozilla and Rust foundation as examples.

On the crypto tokens, there are tons of reasons not to use them as I have mentioned on this thread and others have mentioned as well. [0]

[0] https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/the-technological-case-ag...
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> just like they recently did to Vanced

What did they do to Vanced? Still works on my phone.
Would you agree that the baseline skill set to be employable at any wage has slowly creeped up over the past century?
"The owner is making money, but so are the players, the referees, the concession staff, parking attendants, stores and shops that sell licensed apparel, and the bars, restaurants, and other adjacent businesses. Not to mention the marketing team, strength and conditioning coaches, web developers, and others who work for the team. And although temporary, it does create new construction jobs. This is true for football, soccer, baseball, basketball, and other sports."

You're following the 'broken window' theory of economics, focusing on how breaking a window creates a job for a handyman. Of course when put this way you know it's ridiculous - but why? It's because it ignores the thing that the handyman could have done instead which must be foregone. Everything comes instead of something else.

If we build a stadium, we necessarily do so instead of a hospital, school, houses, etc or more abstractly we might be giving up haircuts, shoes and some amount of anything else. Money spent near the stadium in a bar isn't getting spend at some other business. All of the benefits of having a stadium come at the expense of giving up something else of greater-or-equal value elsewhere.

It's just hard to see this, because the benefits are concentrated in a single, highly-visible endeavor, and the costs are diffused throughout the rest of the economy.
No it hasn’t. It just wasn’t a meme yet.
Robots aren't capable of love or lust.
This is incredible - I remember seeing this project at a hackathon back when I was in college and thinking it was so cool! So funny to see the actual author of it posting about it on HN now :). Really such a cool project - would love to see this become more mature.

Without actually looking through the code, I have a few questions:

1. How slow is it loading webpages? I think SMS would be a little sluggish since each message can only contain 160 characters.

2. How do you guys manage out of order text messages? Is there some sort of metadata that governs the order of a multi-part SMS?

Thanks so much for posting this - really a blast from the past.
I've never had the email/MMS gateways work. Personally I prefer JMP.chat which gives you a nice XMPP/MMS gateway and is much easier to work with.
Lots of things kill more people than lots of other things; that isn’t the sole metric that dictates our domestic policies.

I happen to agree re: positive outreach. But outreach is a prophylactic measure, and the incel “movement” (as it were) contains people who run the spectrum from reachable with traditional support to people who merely lack the means to kill at the current moment. Both need to be addressed.
Yes. That was bad. The thing is that Lenovos ThinkPads are still good.

Honestly, we just accept what Apple, Google and Xiaomi are doing every day. Maybe they note it somewhere in the terms or not. The difference is, that we've access to the BIOS and higher expectations to Lenovo. On the other side "What Aboutism" doesn't help :(
Business Analyst and Life Coach in training here.

Let's assume the other given advice of "just make more money" isn't helpful to you

"Treat your personal finances like a business" type advice might apply here.

Basically, if you want something to improve the first thing you need to do is measure it. Give yourself a chance to find common sense solutions by bringing all of your spending into the light.

I personally track 2 things independently and it is enough for me. Total balances, and Actual Expenses.

Total balances is a snapshot, I update the balances on all my accounts about once a month (you might want to do weekly at first) and save a copy. This is my pulse. I can look historically at how the balances are changing and make sure it is going in the right direction. This is where you will physically see yourself getting out of paycheck to paycheck when it happens.

Actual Expenses is an archive workbook with csv exports from each of my credit cards and debit cards. Leave the vendor names as they are. Copy and paste them into a new sheet and remove duplicates. Add 2* columns: Name, Category (*can add more if you want). Fill them out, create a lookup on the transaction data table to add your custom fields, and make a pivot table. See where your money is going.

Name is a simple easy to read version of the vendor because "CVS" & "Burger King", etc usually dont appear that cleanly on the bank statement.

Category is as you would guess, just a way to group related items. Personally I use 2 category columns; for example - Burger King, Fast Food, Food & Drink. theres a lot of room to go crazy here with detail, but keep in mind you have to do this for every new vendor you use so i recommend keeping it simple.

Link each card archive into a data model with Select on Date, Debit Amount, Credit Amount, Name, Category. Union the tables together

It helps to isolate bank transfers (like paying off a credit card from your checking account) so you can filter them out if you want, bc they effectively double count your transactions. The $500 debit from my checking account is $500 of transactions on the credit card - so it will look like $1000 total debits which can be confusing / misleading if you're unaware
If your employer chooses Rufbereitschaft as their on-call mode, then that means it all adds to your working time, and you can't exceed 10hours a day. Having a 2hour incident means no more overtime allowed. Additionally, they need to clock your work during each incident. Lastly, if you have an incident outside of working hours, you are not allowed to pick up work again for another 11 hours, unless it's another incident.
No need to wonder it’s been going on since cointel pro

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/feds-targeted-blm-protes...
Personally? I think you've already got steps in that direction with things like the Internet Archive, but that's subtly different because the ergonomics are more around you need to know what you're looking for to find it.

The major issue that may hold it back though, is libraries wouldn't sacrifice their current duties and role in society to do it, (which I agree with wholeheartedly). and anyone trying to host an honest search index is going to have to deal with the political baggage associated therewith. If you host for profit, you will get sued. If you did it as a research project/labor of love (from the United States), arguably, you may have grounds to tell other people's lawyers to stuff it, but there are certain interests which will spend every hour and minute they can trying to get the courts to twist your arm into preserving the integrity of their business model. The law os also fraught with precedent that makes things like pirate site listing a no-no; but it is not clear to my knowledge if that is a blanket ban on indexing, or a ban on indexing + any type of amplification while reaping financial benefit thereby.

I've contemplated doing a project in that direction a few times. I always end up waffling before I get started though. I'd totally do it, but I have a feeling I'd better get a JD first unless I essentially want a hobby project to turn into some lawyer's recreational revenue stream. It's sad it's come to that, but it is what is.

It is definitely on my list of "Stuff to do once I've built myself up a nest egg". As I truly think an index unpoisoned by commercial concerns is something the world expected, and increasingly needs. I weep for a return to a more objective picture of the Web; one where it was in a literal sense more the worlds hypertext implemented phonebook rather than a cesspool of SEO garbage, and lawsuit driven optics management/platforming tool.

It just blows, because the moment you start getting people to help stave off what operational costs are incurred, and it goes beyond donation/volunteerism, you're done. Somebody will have an in to coerce you into distorting your search index. If not on commercial interest, then on the basis that of course, "some arsehole will host CP (or other verboten content) out there, and what do when you index it?"

I may be a militant enough "info must be free" personality to undertake the journey... But I'm one person, and my interest is prone to fickleness, and I've been called an absolute madman by enough people I have the feeling that if things did get off the ground sufficiently, I am unsure whether or not I'd find someone else willing to work on keeping the thing available.

And there are few things I hate in life more than being a Single Point Of Failure.
I started out a little curmudgeonly about the style, but was won over by Persona 5: https://www.atlus.com/persona5/home.html

It's messy, chaotic, and feels like something from the late 90's/early 00's, where you'd often see custom web pages using formatted images as elements of the page. But I love it. I can't quite make sense of it, as I adhere pretty strongly to brutalism/minimalism when designing my own content.
Great comment.

One of the things you mentioned was opportunity cost. I wonder if cities such as Columbus or other similarly sized cities actually lack opportunities and so they always latch on to projects like these? Are there intangible benefits to having an NFL stadium that aren't realized in economic cost-benefit analysis? For example, while Columbus is similarly sized to Cleveland and Cincinnati, if you watch the news or weather channel they always choose to show both of those cities instead of Columbus, the capitol (I know the likely reason is just makes more sense to display both of those). Or if I travel I always have to say Columbus, Ohio instead of just Columbus. Not the case with Cincinnati or Cleveland. Is that because the name of those two cities is so unique, or because we don't have an NFL team to get name recognition? Does that affect investment opportunities when companies are considering locating an office? Are we not front of mind because of that? I don't know either way, but I also wonder how this could be measured and if it provides any economic value.
100% this. The "provided the people are capable of remembering it" is the "frictionless environment" or "spherical cow" in physics equations.

Easy to throw out as a caveat and sound reasonable, impossible in actuality. The devil is always in the details.
US will do anything but fund free/accessible healthcare, especially mental healthcare. Mass shooters and incels are products of mental health problems.
The article cites economic research showing the impact on tourism of new sports facilities is negligible.
It's a creature from Doctor Dolittle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Doctor_Dolittle_charac...
Ah, I misunderstood. Thanks for the correction. Seems fairly harmless then, as the most common reason for nondefault is an error.

I would like to see an explicit way to set it to "none" by including a first party browser selector.
You are going to get hired at 1.5x, you are going to get hired even at 10x, but only on the top of the hierarchy.

On the bottom of the hierarchy the lowest managers do not not want to hire special cases. If you are that good then the manager will really have no power over you and can't even replace you if it becomes needed.

So you only have 2 options if you are significantly above average. Fight your way up for big money or stay at the bottom and work very little to compensate for the small salary. You should be able do get an average work load done in no time if you really are good.
Usual reminder that Firefox in iOS still means "Safari with a Firefox skin". But yes, it's an improvement, after "only" a decade of complaints about a clearly anticompetitive restriction.
Open source software business model concerns in the public cloud age (2021)
Safari on my iPhone is basically unusable. Refreshes the page constantly; swipe back a page and it refreshes; scroll down long enough and it refreshes. Then there's Reddit - crashes constantly, literally will not load comments. It does this with and without extensions.
Maybe we can change the game-theoretic parameters of the universe to disincentivize short-term outcome optimisation.
None of this is aimed at any individual Webkit developer. The state of Safari (stagnation and underinvestment) is on Apple, not on the team.

Apple not taking feedback or taking it and it being completely pointless is well documented behavior. This guy...

https://firt.dev/

...has basically been doing Apple's job for ages. Testing releases, documenting endless bugs, providing feedback, usually leading to absolutely nothing at all. Recently, he kept score from what was actually handled based on last year's feedback. It was close to nothing. Which is business as usual, it's like talking to a brick wall.

Things couldn't be more dramatically different with the Chrome team. When I register a bug there, I get feedback within hours. They will scrutinize it immediately and confirm if its reproducible or not. They will indicate if its per spec or not, refer to discussions and assign it to a group/member when it's a valid bug. If it's anything remotely serious, it's often solved within 2 releases, so within 12 weeks.

Further, one can directly interact with the Chrome team on Twitter and I regularly have long email conversations with them by personal email. They are accessible and take your feedback serious. Apple is the exact opposite.

As for Safari updates, they're usually meh. Small list of bug fixes and some web inspector improvements. Hence my remark that this is an unusually valuable release.
An American polysci in New York offering her unsolicited opinion about ukraine and eastern europe refugee policies. She then shills her book.
Also the blame. On prem outage? IT management is in the hot seat for a fix. AWS outage? Well, major us-east-1 outages make the news so the blame is more diffuse. And even outside of that, it's much harder for anyone internally to blame IT management for the outsourcing, so long as they were smart and got the CFO to take credit for the cost savings of going cloud or something.

HN often underestimates how much of enterprise IT, and large business generally, is about making sure that upsides are concentrated enough your management chain can take responsibility, and downsides are either diffuse enough or deflectable enough that your management chain can avoid responsibility.
Yeah of course details matter. The takeaway for me find out which details matter.

However if I try to keep every detail about everything then effectively I am gonna miss important details about important thing while keep holding trivial detail based on superficial interpretation of details matter.
Incel ideology is pretty nihilistic and violent. We're not talking "sad, disaffected weirdos" here but people who profess a rabid hate for the female gender, comparable to any other extremist ideology. (And yes, this means that the "not getting any" part of it is pretty much a self-created problem. Who could possibly want to get intimately involved with people who endorse that kind of nuttery?)
I don't think the Wii is a gen z thing.
Plus airports are the ony place you don't have to feel guilty about having a beer with breakfast!
Somewhere along the line we forgot there was end user interface customization other than light and dark mode. It was called themes.
I have read that one-man one-woman was the solution thousands of years ago to deal with this exact problem. Currently, the top X% of men get all the women and the bottom (100-X)% are terrorists (according to this article).
I recommend books by Neville Goddard. There are some people who recommend these books in HN as well. And some of those you can listen in youtube, and in r/nevillegoddard. Here's a channel that I would like to recommend, r/edwardartsupplyhands and his youtube channel edwardart. The discussions where straight to the point in my opinion and does not monitize his work.

Although I don't believe in those as well, I find it fascinating that they claim that god is your imagination. That means, whatever you imagine in your mind, it will become a reality in your future. If you imagine that you are wealthy, then you'll be wealthy soon. But you have to feel it as if it is true and it will reflect to your reality in the future. According to them, it is most effective when you imagine before you sleep. You can prove their teachings wrong by testing it. There's nothing for you to lose. Then you can share your experience with your partner. You won't believe until you experience it yourself. That would be a great topic for both of you to talk about.

One more thing, the old hacking magazine phrack published a topic about out-of-the body-experience or astral projection[0]. For me, the article is a very intersting read. And it's kinda scary but interesting since a lot of people claim to have experienced it. Plus, there are interesting books about it. Again, you won't believe until you experience it yourself.

I hope this will help improve your relationship. Good luck.

[0] - http://www.phrack.org/archives/issues/64/16.txt
This hits the nail on the head and I never even realized it. I am a religious minimalist when it comes to design, I have no idea why but progress from the 90's sites just seemed to keep removing things so it felt like a natural progression.

I can see why the change from minimal to 'busy' would be the inverse when starting from a minimalist POV like the younger generations. Great article.
I remember the time when I first used <marquee> and I jumped like a little kid. Fast forward a few years when I started designing for web as a career, and I was sad to see that nobody used <marquee> in production. It turned out to be a toy.

Heart broken.

But I grew to love the minimalism design.

Recently I started Youtubing and make designing thumbnails, minimal doesn't work. The demography 18 to 35 year old prefer something that quickly grabs their attention.

Amused to see the trend seeping into UI/UX as well.
This is awesome info.

And I love how the guy in that wikipedia article is just waving at the camera, like, "Hey I'm having fun in my MOPP gear. grits teeth"...

Maybe you can't say but is there any training on using chemical agents in combat? Or is it all defensive? As a military person do you think this "trip drug" idea is just crazy stupid, or...maybe could work? or not your purview?
>One of the more unfortunate names for an environmental magazine since "hakai" means "destruction" in Japanese.

I doubt it's unintentional. It's difficult to imagine any modern environmental magazine that wouldn't focus primarily on the ongoing destruction of that environment.
It's one thing for social media or search engines to be changing their algorithm a bit to prioritize mainstream sites and reduce the ranking of Russian state news sites. That might still be a misguided decision, but at least it mostly falls within the normal mission of what a search engine is supposed to be.

It feels deeply wrong with a browser getting involved in deciding what search engine a user chooses. A browser is supposed to be a dumb content viewer that renders what the user asks for. Imagine using a TV that switched the channel if you watched a show its manufacturer didn't approve of, or using a long-distance carrier that turned off your service if you said R-rated words.

Mozilla has lost the plot.
> Amazon knew that the courier service they were using didn't really even try to deliver packages4 promptly and the only short-term mitigation available to them was to tell support to tell people that they shouldn't expect that packages have arrived when they've been marked as delivered.

Well, that's partially the fault of Amazon for paying absolute shit on parcel contracts that literally cannot support a parcel business. When the incentive for the parcel delivery service is to mark a package as delivered to get money from Amazon and at the same time hold the packages for one to three days to group them by recipient, of course this is what will result!
You could stop giving out guns to basically the entire population....
In thumb2 virtually all arm32 Instructions are available, some as 32bit encodings. But even the 16bit encodings include some instructions that work on hi registers.
You're missing a whole lot of risk here, and for only a small gain.

You may not be able to guarantee that the new person can do it. This isn't a given, otherwise we would have all figured out how to hire the right devs for any given product and team.

There's a ramp up time to learning the product (and codebase, if it's software). If an emergency happens, only the new person will be fixing it and they will lack a lot of knowledge to fix it quickly or effectively.

Did the maintainer have any customer relations like customer feedback, including what works and doesn't in the product and what features they would like to see? Those have just been forfeited as well. Same for intra-company relationships.

The person you just fired could also go help make a competing product (legally or not), since they're the best person to do so. Chasing this down would require legal resources, which requires further expenses.

Sounds like a whole lot of extra potential complications for a measly +$300k.
It's also incredible how this discussion is entirely uninformed by the posted article. The reading presents several thoughtful explanations for the armor, along with reasons they don't quite make sense. Many comments here are from folks who clearly didn't read that but have Very Valuable Opinions to share. As if being a software engineer also makes you an expert in military armor.
At age 50 now, I'd prefer a Gen X mode where the font size is 125% and the text is high contrast.
War, (Ru)peace, and broken windows
Not only that, but it's becoming increasingly taboo to talk about threats originating from minority groups. Whether those groups are religious, ethnic, or "racial" minorities, pointing out issues tied to / originating among them could be political suicide. Such issues have to be approached carefully.
Are there any similar websites but for web development in general (not just CSS)? Because this one is amazing!

The insane amount of SEO spam articles you get whenever you look for guides/examples on Google makes it almost impossible to rely on just searching on Google when you need it. So I'm finding myself having to go back to looking for curated lists of quality websites...