skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree that getting a property is a good idea. I feel much better and it's easier to stay away from news & social media whenever I go to countryside, where I have lots of free space and things to do outside. In an apartment there are only so many things one can do, and too many screens nearby, especially for a remote-worker like me.

Maybe urban life works for some people, but it definitely causes boredom to me, and social media & news are a distraction from that.
Burns human corpses in ovens instead. It is the German and Green Party tradition. Humans are renewable energy.
> For web/app design there are a lot of shortcomings though. There's no dynamic snapping,

what do you mean by dynamic snapping. Inkscape had snap to objects, corners, grids ... since forever. Is there anything else to dynamic snapping?

> filters on groups (e.g. drop shadows),

I think there were multiple extensions that could do e.g. drop shadows on groups when I looked at doing that several years ago.

> The text editor is also very basic and counter-intuitive.

I agree text handling isn't great, especially exported text paragraphs still sometimes cause issues (they essentially don't show up in exported PDFs). That said I'm not sure what you mean by the text editor is basic, sure it's not a word processor, but other programs in this space have very similar editors.
But if the human died because law enforcement deemed them dangerous, due to some shitty law, then that human is still dead.
Fight for a constitutional amendment ratifying an explicit right to privacy then.

I agree that it would be good if we had that. But just because it would be good doesn't mean we can pretend it already is so.
The latest news was development of an optical transistor, but the output signal is electrical, not optical. That would make chaining them to make a logic gate tricky.
In topics like these on HN, people often compare social media (SM) with tobacco/drugs. I still disagree with this comparison.

For one, social media is not inherently bad like smoking/some drugs.

The only SM I use currently is Instagram. I spend 30 minutes or less per day and I’m usually happy at the end.

In fact I would argue IG made me a better person — I got into fitness, helped me connect with a football club I now play with, etc. In the past I used Facebook a lot and it changed my life — I found jobs and built connection with people I would have never had the opportunity to meet.

The majority of my friends have a similar experience. My father (60) who lives in a remote part of the world uses “joy” to express his experience with SM.

Secondly, on the topic of social media making people feel insecure about something (like their bodies). Isn’t that everywhere? At the beach? In magazines? On TV? At parties? In school?

I’m into fitness and I see people that have better aesthetics than me on SM and IRL. I appreciate their beauty but it doesn’t faze me. Isn’t it common knowledge that someone always have more X than you? And these people are usually the minority?

Lastly, influencers react to the market. Anyone who has ever posted content know that wholesome content are usually not engaged on as much as exaggerated/superficial content. If people want less of these, maybe they should vote with their likes & follows?

PS: I do realize some part of my comment might not be as practical as simply not using social media at all. But I think we should be teaching people these skills as it applies beyond SM usage.
I don't understand Goenka. It's an extremely intense experience to do unless you are very experienced. The total hands off approach of the "assistant teachers" is extremely dangerous. These retreats are more intense than most Zen retreats. Bizarre and dangerous
shadertoy is awesome
'Bout f'n time! They've been dining on Waterloo grads for just about ever now.

Waterloo is possibly the best CS school in the world, but we keep ignoring it. (Or talking about Hamilton or Toronto or whatever and not that obvious gem in the crown.) This, too, is hilariously Canadian.
I don’t follow supreme court decisions very closely, but what other significant cases have they overturned since gaining a conservative majority?
I recommend Code Complete for characteristics that make code objectively better and more readable.

This article seems to make the case that it's all about taste or lack of familiarity. I'm not convinced.
The same scenario that software engineers use it for: Combining work from multiple collaborators into a coherent whole. I don't see why this would be less useful for e.g. a policy institute collaboratively writing a report than it is for programmers collaboratively developing an application.
Being able to take a break from social media is one of the nobler goals we started building Murmel (https://murmel.social) with. It’s not an easy process, and we are far from finished, but our customers have already reported positive results back to us. Rather than scrolling on Twitter for hours, they now let the best of their Twitter timeline arrive in their inboxes once a day. Like the morning newspaper reading routine, I am hoping that we would be able to provide people with the option to disengage from the downward spiral of doom-scrolling, and instead, get the gist of all there is to know in one daily email digest.
I'm as pro-choice as the average European, and as pro-encryption as the average libertarian. But saying that those two things are the same is ludicrous and absurd.
>The real question at the center of abortion rights legislation is not "should women be allowed to do what they want with their own bodies," it's "at what point does a fetus become a person, entitled to the same legal protections that other people have."

This question has been resolved for years. The government has weighed abortion vs viability and has put reasonably limits on abortion. The pro-life constituent seek to entirely ban abortion past fertilization and even want to ban contraceptives.

I'm not interested in debating anyone that's pro-life anymore because there is no debate or movement to be had. The goal of overturning Roe v Wade isn't a debate, it's a demand. And you should be fighting demands that seek to take away rights with a hard no.
Blackrock purchases USDC and one by one all other stablecoins start collapsing.
Until the past couple weeks I haven't used reddit in years because its just a bunch of toxic echo chambers. Today I tried posting a helpful suggestion to someone asking for recommendations for speakers for their parents' TV. Several other users got nasty and a mod deleted our thread because I dared to suggest a soundbar in the "home theater" forum. I guess I'll try again in a few more years?
>>If you don’t like that, you can still resist and ask for “Senior” level responsibility but people will slowly lose respect for you as you get older. That’s how humans work: we want the older people to lead us with their experience.

Is that really true? I debated this quite a bit in choosing to go back to being an IC. I get the expectation of mentorship with seniority (and maybe life experience/age) but I don't see how that necessitates being a people manager versus a technical lead to do so. I think that I so often provide that in my IC role is why I'm an attractive candidate to be pushed into management though.
Because as a community we are highly masochistic and source perverted pleasure from teasing others especially during interviews. Another industry with desperate need for version control is law, instead they use the most hopeless solutions like Word documents and email conversations. Ask any lawyer what version control are they using - they will charge you EUR 100 for the answer and the answer will be "none".
But you'd either need ports at all the locations you need to send supplies, or you'd need something like this "land train"[*]. And if you have that, why bother with the complexity, difficulty, and time needed to build ports?

[*] I'm sure that name makes sense to someone, but not to me...
It's not EMI because it's the cardboard box that he puts the pelicase into. And quite honestly, that cardboard box won't do a whole lot. You probably have pretty good cell reception in it.
This whole diatribe isn’t on topic for this article, and doesn’t really fit on hacker news. Your Facebook page is a better place for this kind of content
Not to be dismissive but you can write software for a living and not deal with personal data. It's possible. Entire fields out there.
> Do you agree that the government has the right to ban encryption and other details relating to privacy?

I think it would be very likely that a law passed by the legislative branch banning encryption would not be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. I don't think there's much room for debate here.

Digital privacy and abortion are issues that must be handled in the legislative branch, not the judicial one.
Paycheck induced blindness to the premise of not writing spyware.
Volume doesn’t matter in terms of BTC’s operational capacity. It just reflects how 1 BTC is priced.

The number of transactions that can be made on the Bitcoin network is ridiculously low, which is why it can never be a currency.

What the “volume” represents is the high valuation of a Bitcoin and little else.

And if you further break down those transactions into those that are actual money transfers and payments, vs those that are just financial engineering within crypto or simply
Converting money to and from BTC it will look pitifully small.
Read the opinion for Roe. It wasn’t privacy exactly. Rather, the court wasn’t actually sure it was freedom/autonomy or privacy. Both the 9th and 14th amendments are argued. The 10th is not mentioned, which if we steelman the argument, must be.

A bit of a nitpick, but the reason Roe has been considered to have “shakey limbs” (see Ginsberg’s comments on the case) is the court was ambiguous on why it was decided as it was.
> Alternatively he thought it was a worthwhile policy and hoped the constitution would be amended by the time it took effect, if not, then he had multiple years of his preferred policy in place..

That is possible. They did try in 2020, at least for government and public institutions not companies: https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...
The music owner would surely be a gatekeeper in either a blockchain-based or blockchainless solution because they would want to vet that the service providers were properly respecting the rights token. And whether or not the standard is open or proprietary seems orthogonal to whether a blockchain is involved.
Sounds like the UN has a faulty system to analyze this particular threat.

It’s novel. Maybe that’s why.

Inflation + Ukraine/Russian exports offline + Diesel too expensive + Chemical fertilizers unavailable + Weather changes that make planting impossible + Supply chain malfunctioning = REALLY low food production

And global food shortages.
More complex and take more room. You don’t need a lie flat bed for example. I don’t remember having heating last time I flew first class either.
> Even assuming that is so, I think a bulky mains-powered PC is not anything close to the right tool to provide any of that.

I must ask: did you read the article? It's about a 5V system with a Raspberry pi in a case with an official raspberry pi screen packaged in a water-tight container with a custom keyboard - not too far off from a kindle, just with room for a battery/power bank. Add a modest 50W solar panel, and you have better data-density and durability than a stack of paper.
Conspiracies about Conspiracy Theories
This "natural selection" argument presupposes that women are sufficiently prevalent on boards that the competitive advantage they provide is apparent and obvious to all other companies. This assumption is problematic in a context of low prevalence.
> AVR-GCC has C++ support

It's a very restricted subset of C++ that has almost no advantages over plain C, and some number of disadvantages.
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Agreed, but... big picture, aren't we discussing how we could make boards better? Haha.
i like meld. but i dont like how it takes ages to start on windows
What about focus? Laying down means different blood pressure in brain than it is in vertical position.
We have been constantly losing freedoms since 9/11, guantanamo and covid. 5-6 administrations have shown they care jack shit about right to privacy which underpins Roe. It's just the matter of course.
Ask HN: Has anyone else had _very_bad experiences with Capital One's Fraud Dept?
Hey Folks-

I've been a Capital One customer for 10+ years. I have three credit cards with them and an auto loan financed through them. My credit score is 750+.

In the past five years I've had to call them to use money that is legally mine about 10-15 times, including once when they believed a transaction by LADWP (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, a Utility Provider), who had charged me 12+ times, was fraudulently charging my card. They required a copy of the utility bill, my social security card, and a photo of my driver's license. After providing all of those forms of ID, they required me to get on a 3 way phone call with LADWP to have me provide my information, while they listened in, and LADWP then verified that I was the account holder and the bill was valid.

When they assumed the transaction was fraudulent on that one card, they completely froze all three of my credit cards, which was reflected in their web UI and mobile app. My debit card was not frozen. I assumed it was phishing at first, but after jumping through their hoops, my cards were unfrozen with no alerts or communication from their fraud department that the "investigation" led to nothing. I had to go check my account manually to verify my accounts were finally unfrozen. While this sounds absurd, I tried to use all three cards while they were locked, and sure enough, they were frozen.

The other class of issues I've had with them is in using my debit card - any time I try to use it, which admittedly is 3-4 times per year for an ATM, they deny the cash withdrawal. I then have to call them, spend 15-20 minutes on the phone providing my information, and then wait a bit before I can use my card to withdraw cash.

I would have switched banks the second I went through that ordeal with the utility bill, but one of the credit cards I hold with them is the longest credit line that I own. I believe closing it would negatively affect my credit, but I'd like to hear whether or not this is normal with Capital One.
Roe vs Wade was based on a privacy argument, so finding a connection between the pro-choice position and encryption seems natural.
We do not have any reason to believe that mere algorithms are incapable of living up to the standards of human abilities.
I see it as window dressing at best. Getting a job on a board is great for that one person (they get money, influence, status), but doesn't do anything for the others. I've asked this before: what's the goal, and how does putting women (in this case) on boards help towards that goal?
I think it might be due to the compunding factor of multiple people working on multiple files concurrently. Collaboration in research is more limited to sharing information, and when writing does take place at the same time it is only usually a couple people working on it. The frequency of sharing files could also be a factor. Also I don't think anyone wants to learn to use another piece of software among the dozen they already have to use. Emailing a latex file at the end of the day seems much simpler.
Virtually all FOSS projects grind to a halt with regards to basic features as soon as they gain traction. The old userbase wants to keep the UX, others want to revamp, yet others want some other kind of pivot.

The real pivot window is before you gain traction, unfortunately.
I'm using 2 useful apps to avoid social media on my smartphone:

- Minimalist phone:

Gives you full control on your home screen, and which apps you want to hide.

- lock me out:

Useful apps and sites blocking. You must pay in-app-purchase to break out your rules.

And for my mac I'm using static /etc/hosts file and simply putting hosts that I don't want to access hundreds of times.

it looks like that:

127.0.0.1 news.google.com

127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com

127.0.0.1 twitter.com
...
Can you actually see the large game houses collaborating on the standards that would permit item game-interoperability? I’m struggling.
Messaging, chat, video calls, and gaming without the need for a centralized service. All you need is a directory so you can find the other party. Like Skype before Microsoft.
For one of my projects running a few droplets, it's an almost 10% increase. Sure they didn't increase the prices for many years, but I would have expected that new instances would got the new prices, not an increase on existing ones...
The German Green Party is responsible for this crime.
What's unclear is your use of the word "rational". It appears you are using that word to mean "actions that are in accordance with values I approve of" instead of its common meaning which is more along the lines of "actions that are consistent with ones reasons".

As long as the CCP behaves in a way that is consistent with its own system of reasoning, the CCP is behaving rationally. You may disagree with their reasons, and their reasons may even be immoral, but on the whole I wouldn't say the CCP are doing anything particularly irrational.

A few simple tests to determine if someone is behaving rationally is whether their actions are predictable and consistent. Given that their stance on COVID has been very consistent the past two years, it's not accurate to call them irrational about it.
Not just absurd, but potentially harmful. If non-tech people are somehow led to believe that encryption is in any way controversial, that could make them want to steer away from the controversy, and away from the discussion.

Plus even if they are pro-abortion, abortions are a rare and exceptional event, and this might make them think that encryption is "special" in the same way. But encryption is ubiquitous.
The involvement of the US began in the early 90, maybe even before. It was that other Clinton at that time.
The Dobbs draft does not argue against the right of privacy. In fact, it reaffirms several rulings where this is applied. The difference is that none of those conflicted with what Roe v. Wade called "potential life." Alito's argument is that the way Roe v. Wade establishes this balance is inherently legislative, which represents a major abuse of court power, and Alito wants this power to the restored to the states.
Because git UI sucks. I've been using git for 10 years at least tried mastering it 3 times, even now I'm exactly 30% sure what is happening if I'm using a not top 4 command
> dynamic snapping

This release adds alignment and distribution snapping, it's mentioned in the full release notes:

https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.2/Inksc...
For me, readable code is smart code wrote in a way that makes it readable by dummies. I've seen both 1000locXfile imperative spaghetti messes and super modular dogmatic Clean Code/Hexagonal Architecture/DDD stuff, and I can tell you that both can be nightmare inducing. I'm no big brainer, but I've always been praised for being the guy who produces legible code which other devs, even juniors, don't fear messing with. How? I simply don't push my code to extremes like it's gonna prove I'm smarter than I need to be for my job. And I model pretty damn intricated logic for a job.
Calculating type sets is harder than you think
I think you can substitute time sink with lower life expectancy for tobacco.
Reddit is best when the sub-reddits are smallish. Home Theater is gets pretty rabid when it comes to soundbars, that's the last place to ask or give soundbar advice.

Typically, the subreddits I like the best are splinters from the original. Typically these start after some sub-reddit drama happens and a moderate size group decides to go somewhere else.
Winds are finally blowing the other way? The other completely unconstitutional but widely practiced things in US are "the employer has to prove its innocence" when it comes to hiring discriminations - which is not only blatantly unjust, but eats up enormous resources and potential. And affirmative action in education.
Is abortion a right?

I think it should be, but it is not an enumerated right subject to the 10th amendment. Nor is there a federal law. We have been living with a restriction placed on states by a court decision.

I wish on the last 50 years someone attempted to make it an actual right or even a law.
The US courts have already ruled that you cannot coerce someone to donate bone marrow in order to save a life, on the basis of bodily autonomy. The contention is that pregnancy is a similar case and the pregnant woman is withdrawing her consent to allow the foetus to depend on her body.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McFall_v._Shimp
The bureucracy around F1 visas is dystopian. I know a lot of folks who got into trouble for obviously innocent things.
Bureaucracy and legal systems pose some sort of physical threat to you and can use violence (or the threat of violence) to enforce their rules.

In most western societies this happens only if absolutely necessary, after many warnings and the reactions are quite measured (e.g. you won't get shot for a parking ticket). The existence of assholes make people ask for rules to reign them in.

Whoever can send armed people to your door makes the rules. If you are a lucky you have some degree of say who that is (elections) and what that rules might be (e.g. ballot measures, public discussion). If you are unlucky the militia just shows up and takes you to a dark alley.

Crypto (or any other technology for that matter) doesn't change that fundamental fact that your physical body is located somewhere on this world and is accessible to someone. It takes some time for the bureaucracy and the laws to adjust but it always happens.
If need be (e.g. you created a smart contract that does something illegal) you can be punished so other people won't do the same.

In conclusion:

> No, you merely accept bureaucracy because you are old and complacent

Is not how these things work at all.
> That said, framing the debate around abortion purely as a question of bodily autonomy always seemed to be a very dishonest way of engaging with the debate.

Maybe /you/ think it's a dishonest way of engaging with the debate. Most people who are pro-choice consider framing the issue as murder as dishonest.

> Then, should we be allowed to kill braindead and comatose people arbitrarily?

> Or maybe, they just don't look like people, so we don't have to treat them that way? Well, that opens up a pretty ugly can of worms.

These questions are not part of any rational debate.
> Arduino is entirely C++ though

No, it's C++ without exceptions (so constructors are useless).

On Arduino you will almost certainly program in a C-with-classes manner; lack of exceptions make almost everything that C++ brings to the table useless[1].
The Roe v Wade meaning of "privacy" was about the ability to make intimate, personal decisions without the state interfering, which is somewhat different from (though related to) online privacy.

It is pretty clear that the ability to have safer online conversations is key to exercising your ability to make intimate decisions in the modern age, so the two meanings do converge there.
So? Move along? Nothing to see here? Everything is fine? I mean except this ludicrous and absurd article of course.