skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A coup? Seriously? Have you seen what a coup looks like? They usually involve armies and mass executions, it isn't some shirtless guy in a headdress.

Again though, this is exactly my point. I am not from the US. I couldn't really care less. But the problem is that someone's obviously ludicrous subjective interpretation of an event is being stated as an objective fact, and then applied by social media. Do you not see how this can backfire on you? In other words, you have no problem when it is being rigged against people you don't like but how are you going to respond when it is rigged against you?

This is the reason we have courts. This is the reason we have free speech. It is indivisible, applied to everyone equally.

None of his posts violated ToS (there are people on Twitter who are orchestrating genocide), you just don't like them.
You could have explained that embalming is one of your hobbies and you just finished an embalming course at one of the MOOCs. Companies should support personal development.
*that we know of.

A lot of information is coming out, and it looks very bad. It certainly is not as simple as "tried to sue".

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The thing that rarely gets discussed re Bolt and Fast is what most merchants think about the idea of one click checkout from product detail pages. IMO there are misaligned incentives in many, many cases in that this flow would tend to reduce average order value.
Ivermectin or other known possibly effective, and harmless, drug was still better than "stay at home for 10 days and do Nothing. If start feeling really bad call the emergency number" for a new unknown disease
Show HN: Melodle – Guess the melody in 6 tries (Wordle offshoot)
I agree that apathy is a huge part of the problem, but I also think our two party system is a major issue. We need something like ranked choice voting to open things up a bit and allow challengers to at least threaten the mainstream parties. Otherwise sometimes there's just no good choice.
> for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive

Sounds kind of familiar
Not with reverse mortgages. Many of the baby boomers I know are looking to spend as much money as they can while they’re alive.
QRCode generator in Python (supporting animated GIF)
More accurately, houses are expensive in places where many people want to live. The recommendation would be to buy a house where people dont want to live, which is kinda lame.
The preloaded apps and games really lock in the nostalgia... Infini-d, Bryce, ResEdit, Stuffit, Afterdark
Oral history of Mount Mazama in Oregon recounts an eruption that happened 7700 years ago. Don't be so quick to discount oral history.
I was gonna say well, of course you should be able to configure it within PAM to only be used for certain authentication types, but it turns out one of the literally five pages in the wiki covers just that: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/wiki/Only-using-howdy-for-...

And for anything PAM doesn't handle, since Howdy is just a Python lib/app, it's almost trivial to modify it to do anything else. You could just add your modifications into https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/blob/beta/howdy/src/compar... (eg, make it autofail if a env/memory flag hasn't been set after first login, same with storing an inactivity flag, etc. Looks like the author is responsive taking pull requests, so you could even do it properly and get it upstreamed even: https://github.com/boltgolt/howdy/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclose...

As for appropriateness, it's fine if it's not your cup of tea, but with 3.6K stars and 220 forks, obviously it works great/is useful for a lot of people so I'm glad that the author released and maintains it, even if it's not for everyone.
> So-called "gray markets" usually operate on thin legal grounds. Suppliers in a gray market usually take advantage of price differences and arbitrage opportunities by acquiring goods in official (and sometimes even unofficial channels) wherever products' MSRP is set at comparatively lower values, finally importing them towards other markets.

Is this article serious? What this paragraph describes is perfectly legitimate trade - legally buy an item where its cheap, and sell it where it costs more. Why would this be "shady"? If anything, it's the overreach by copy- and trademark holders trying to dictate who you're allowed to sell to even after they've already sold you an item that is shady.

In fact, parallel imports (the term used for what this article calls "shady imports") are perfectly legal in the US and EU [1], so a better title would be "Russia synchronizes its trade law with that of the US and EU".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_import
You missed the point. How do you know that it was membership in the EU and not membership in NATO that deterred aggression? NATO predates the EU by a long time and there hasn't been war between NATO members or military aggression by a non-NATO European country against a NATO European country. A non-aggression pact without NATO enforcement is easily broken.
> card surcharges have been banned for perhaps 4 years now.

I keep hearing this, but—well, I can’t tell if the law is different in NYC or if everyone just ignores it, but it’s definitely one of the two. Card surcharges (sometimes in the form of a “cash discount”) are very common.
Oh, wow. I thought I was going crazy but this comment makes me think maybe not.

When I was skimming this thread last night I was positive this was an option at one point but when I went into System Preferences to look I could no longer find it. Was making me lose my mind.

Or maybe we’re at a Berenstein/Berenstain situation here.
"Sekki is the traditional way of expressing seasons in Japan. There are 24 sekki, including rikka (立夏, the first day of summer) in early May, shoman (小満, lit. “a little full” as in growing, waxing) in late May and boshu (芒種, lit. bearded grain) in early June.

The 24 sekki can be further divided into three for a total of 72 shijijūni ko (七十二侯) that last for about five days each. These subseasons include mugi no toki itaru (麦秋至), or “the time for wheat has come,” which lasts from May 31 to June 5, and kamakiri shozu (“the mantis is born”) from June 6 to June 10. "

https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/just-how-...

The full list is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_calendar#The_24_sekki

There used to be a maintained shared Google Calendar you could use that would display those in your agenda. While the names did not fit exactly with my local weather, it was interesting to give a name to small parts of the year. It felt very natural and intuitive.
I really like the product and the direction this is going! Especially for things like Authentication, DB, PubSub the value proposition, compared to tying a bunch of 3rd party services together or reading a lot of AWS docs (both options will be much more expensive), seems great. So I will definitely try out your service!

I do have some question for a bunch of the other APIs, and maybe this points to an issue I'm having in general with the service right now, it's missing transparency in the specs.

- Are things hosted on some other cloud provider, if so where? What region?

- What about uptime? If I end up building an application with all of these APIs, I do need a bit more confidence that things will be stable.

Some more specific questions

- the crypto endpoint looks interesting, but for me, it would be quite crucial to know where the data is from? How often is it updated?

- For the "Google" endpoint, I'm missing the option to select mobile or desktop results, and also what's the default region? Is this done via a headless chrome instance running somewhere, or just curling results? Do I have to worry that your IPs will be blacklisted by Google if there are too many queries?

- And a random idea for the "Comments" API it would be great to combine it with the "Spam" endpoint that's available for emails.

Really excited to see where this is going though! And I'm definitely going to follow you guys for new features and API additions, joined the discord a while ago, actually.
What definition of "public utility" includes Comcast but excludes YouTube?
That's what the second part (code reviews) is about. "Can you explain to me how to run this? Actually, can you just write it down and put it in this README?" But yes, it is an ongoing struggle. :-)
What is the best way to take an offline mirror of this site before it is taken offline?
From my perspective, anything regularly
periodic in nature is used to track time: the Sun (years, seasons, days, day/dusk) and Moon (months, weeks, King tides). Consider even the starfield (astrology: years, decades+).

Four seasons makes sense in all of these contexts, and I hypothesize that there are a lot of patterns in nature that are well bucketed into 4 sequential, equal seasons. This is impossible for me to demonstrate, unfortunately. Also, division by by 4 and 12, a year into four seasons is like a month into four weeks. Weeks seem to me to be among our most subjective fundamental time unit.

I see weeks as being the most arbitrary. I always like to imagine what life would be like if weeks were 3 days long. Or 11. I just love this topic.
Thanks for the comments. Yea so we used to say "Powered By X" to indicate what the APIs were backed by but it was a little hacky. We'll try to reintroduce something back into specify the "source". You can otherwise see all the source code for the services in a monorepo on GitHub https://github.com/micro/services. Would be interested to get feedback on a better way to make it available.
The pyramid won't love you back.
It's not that complicated. The US has is fairly open about how much they hate Germany's friendly relationship with Russia for years and has been on a near constant campaign to shame Germany into doing more to oppose them.

This hack attack "attacks" Germany without actually doing any meaningful damage. It serves US interests more than Russian.

>Really 9 times out of 10 it's the obvious.

9 out of 10 hack attacks are attributed on the basis of little more than an IP address and the politically convenient culprit is blamed. It'd be an easy thing to get away with.
How virtualization increased our table performance by 500%
> the 'accepted' process has changed 3 or 4 times in the last 2 years.

No it hasn't.
Well, it's well known since basically as soon as git was published and determined to have not been a big deal, with work on the way ever since an actual collision was published.

Anyway, practically you're going to write a collision fallback anyway, the difference is that as long as collisions aren't likely, you can be pretty sure that collision handling is a very cold code path that's never going to have more than a handful of items in a bucket.

The point I'm trying to make, though, is that while practical collision attacks do have practical implications, they aren't relevant to password hashing. People routinely assume that collision attacks make a hash unsuitable for password hashing. They're not exactly wrong, but it's kind of a non sequitur. I felt that this was a point that had to be made because the framing of parent ("what the consequences of a collision are") implied that the expected answers were exactly the opposite.
Military spending is an example of prisoners' dilemma: the ideal option would be for nobody to have a military, but no matter what the stature of your enemies are, it is more valuable to spend money on maintaining a military than not doing so.

My personal views on the matter tend towards what I would call a militaristic pacifism. I am pretty against actually going to war, but I am generally in favor of maintaining a large, powerful military, far more than most pacifists are. Having that military power gives you better leverage in international affairs, and more resistance against others' leverage. While you can theoretically get a similar position with strong moral high ground, the reality is that you need a truly impeccable history of sustaining the moral high ground for that position to not be eroded with whataboutism, a history that I think no political actor has ever attained.

Another perspective I will point out is that a decent fraction of "military expenditure" is not on actual military readiness. I've been on research grants that are coming out of the defense spending bucket, but I've never worked on anything remotely close to a weapon (e.g., one line item would have been building compilers, which is difficult to even maliciously twist into working on weapons).
I know but I'm pointing out that it's not an inherently invalid assessment of the situation. One can hold it in good faith, so what terminology should they use instead?
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> why we demanded ukraine disarm and give up its nukes

Partly because Ukraine never had nukes. They had Russian nukes on their soil, but no ability to use them. Letting Russia take them back was the only reasonable answer.

Also, it was hardly a guarantee that Ukraine was going to end up with a democratic government, could just as easily have been a string of dictators. We don't need yet more dictators-with-nukes.
They have a colour display 256x240 whereas the playdate has a 400x240 mono display.

If we assume 4 bits per pixel for the NES (it offers 56 different colours but not all at once)
That's 245.760 bits for the Game & Watch versus
96.000 bits for the Playdate, a significant difference.
Too bad evolution doesn't install basic learning as part of the default system. Humans at this point should just be a new container being launched with a default level of software pre-installed. Would we be more advanced as a species if we didn't have to constantly teach each new instance 1+1=2 so that each new instance already new multiplication tables from 1 to 25 type of thing?
Ok interesting. Then I'll try to figure something out. I think we can probably find a way to handle all the graphql requests through a single endpoint. Thanks for the info.
What does one have to do to get as clear and pretty of a UI as that on the modern desktop OSes? Everyone switched from bitmaps to vectors over a decade ago and now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out.

Of course you can always run dwm on linux with a hodgepodge of makeshift utility apps, write your own keybinds to set your brightness and volume and other such inanities, but in order to get a 'complete' desktop experience you kinda have to opt-in to GNOME/KDE which are trying to do the same things as Apple or Microsoft, aesthetically speaking. And tough luck if you actually use Apple or Microsoft to begin with. I tried running bug.n and it seems to not work in win10, let alone win11.
Some would point at the USSR occupations of the Warsaw Pact countries and say "See, this is why we need to defend ourselves from Soviet aggression".

But the USSR didn't take action to create an immoral buffer to it's borders until they learned about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable

And if you want to bring up the USSR invasion of Poland in 1939, take a look at what Poland did to Czechoslovakia in 1938 while Germany was occupying Sudetenland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Olza#Part_of_Poland_(193...

It can both be true that the USSR was a violent, genocidal, repressive regime that oppressed it's own people AND that the ideological spread of Communism throughout the world was orthogonal to Soviet authoritarian tendencies, and was thus the threat that was described to people in the West was more to capitalist institutions and the richest classes, not to your freedom of prosperity.

tl;dr: You were never in danger of living in a North Korea-type Gulag.
Just seeing the logo gave me flashbacks to hogging two phone lines at night downloading - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications
Lessons Learned in 10 Years of SRE: Part 1 – Starting SRE – Usenix
We have universal healthcare now, you just have to be 65 to qualify. The easiest way to get healthcare for everybody and not bankrupt the system is to lower the qualifying age 5 years every few years. So make it 60 to qualify, then allow the markets to adjust, then in 5-10 years, make it 55, etc. We're already paying for the most expensive demographic of our population: people 65 and older. The lower we go with the qualifying age, the cheaper each adjustment to the system will be to the taxpayer.

Nobody gets campaign contributions for that though.
There are some people who can do this: spend hours and hours, all nighters, push themselves with deadlines that have come up with and make themselves put in the work. (I believe it is a lot more "natural" to push oneself with programming where the code can fail to compile and you can just keep at it.) Though even those people would be hard pressed to obtain thoughtful feedback on multiple (sometimes very bad) papers, repeatedly, over years.

However, most people would not naturally put in the same effort and for those people, there is a lot of value in the structure.

How much has a lot to do with the particular school, career path, scholarship money and so forth.
Military expenditures of those periods were coincidental and not necessarily causal. The causality may run in reverse. For example, the industrial revolution gave Britain the means and a resource need to project empire past the colonial project of excess population disposal and mercantilism of East India Co. Likewise the green revolution is coincident to US hegemony but the roots are in Borlaug's humanitarian effort in Mexico. The Wizard and the Prophet makes for interesting reading on this.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34959327-the-wizard-a...
NASA applies AI to ‘optimise’ new 3,800mph Hypersonic Engine
Milk cattle are important sources of income in rural India. Milk is taken twice a day - in the morning and in the evening. It's used in the household and any excess is deposited in the village's "milk center"/"milk bank". The collection center writes down the volume and quality of the milk brought in and the agriculturalist gets cash once a month. So it's a little financial bank in that sense, too. Of course, everyone mixes in some water to increase the volume of milk and get paid a little more. But the collection center can do some quick tests to tell. I'm unsure how effective those are.

The cows/buffaloes produce milk every day as long as they're healthy and of the proper age. Feeding a calf as its growing up is an investment that pays off once they reach a proper age. But if a cow/buffalo doesn't feel well, it may stop producing milk for months a time, depriving the family of income. So there's risk. Each adult cow/buffalo can produce about 5000 RS a month in its prime. A government teacher might earn 10000-15000 RS a month. So even a few animals are significant source of income for rural families.

There's significant labor involved in keeping the animals fed and milked. One might have to go out and get grass from common lands or store enough dry feed from the rice/wheat harvest for the months when fresh grass isn't common. Or one might have to take their animals out to the fields for the whole day so they graze. It's hard to take a day off and go on a trip in these circumstances. So usually someone's around to at least milk the animals.
So maybe the best answer is to respond with a question: "Do you mean woman as a biological classification, or as a social construct?"

And I think that most people who ask the question are asking it as a "gotcha" question, and they either deny that "biological classification" has any validity, or they deny that "social construct" has any validity.
As is AppleScript… unfortunately.
So blaming boomers is partly a lie from this generation.

Yes, there are corporations buying houses en masse, but the video mentions how millennials and gen Z are owning homes short term and treating them as investment products (quick money), a behavior which concords with current trends: meme stocks, crypto, FIRE, influencers, etc.
When Musk takes hold of the newscycle HN becomes essentially a tabloid dedicated exclusively to cover Musk . Sad state of affairs.

People should learn, in time, that the odds that they make the thread which strikes gold are very low though.

Many threads are at 1 or 2 votes.
No, I'm not sure why it's here.
> Tower of Babel

That's an interesting analogy, but I'd like to turn a positive spin on it: now that the tower is being built and we can all talk to each other, the old Gods are losing their power and it makes them afraid.

But that's good news for us, the plebs, since the interests of the old Gods aren't aligned with ours:

> Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
Hell, it could literally be a blog post hyperlinked anywhere or even one that the user bookmarks.
It comes with Civ preinstalled?
Just one more turn....
They explicitly keep the Apple icon menu entry for this, so they’re not hiding it from people.

I’d put more money on people on Touchpad devices force quitting more often than anticipated, so they removed it.
Learn to code through live team coding games
I thought that Josh Wardle found a great way to incentivise playing the game on a daily basis and thought that combining this with something useful like ear training would be a perfect fit.

I decided to deviate from the Wordle concept a bit because I realised that simply copying the concept didn't make that much sense given that there are only 12 notes (7 in easy mode). It would have been too easy to solve the melody without even listening to it.

The project is written in Svelte + Svelte Kit.
This is not true? I don't use mouse acceleration, I just use a high-quality mouse with a dialed-in sensitivity.

As the other comments have pointed out, SteerMouse works fine at the cost of $20.
I wish there was an ability to replace smartphone batteries with a capacitor bank. Dashcam users have had these battery problems since Day 1. The solution is to replace batteries with capacitors. They are far more durable and can tolerate heating well.
I remember the weight and desktop real estate they consume.
> Review every patch?

Well, yeah.

If you review code contributed by somebody you spent hours vetting and interviewing, and whose worked in the next office over for a year, and whose work is accountable through their livelihood, why would you not review the code contributed by some unpaid internet rando?

Of course, the practical answer is “Because that’s crazy! There’s no budget for that!” — which is why this problem exists.

There are other ways of establishing and delegating trust so that you personally don’t have to review every import and change (see the Linux distribution ecosystem), but these vulnerabilities will persist until those networks and systems get built out.

And they won’t get built out until people learn that GitHub stars and popularity are not sufficient measures of quality or reliability.