skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> all of the important dates that people care about move around

What dates do you care about?

I know my calendar is full of one-off events, and the recurring events follow the calendar, not the seasons. For these, a 6 day week/30 day month would be easier. That weekly Monday meeting? Always on the 1st, 7th, 13th, 19th, or 25th. The next federal holiday? We can make those always fall on a Monday if we wanted.

I can see that the start/end of the school year is important, but that already moves around enough that you need to look it up. If you are looking for best dates to take a beach vacation, yes, you'd need to look at the seasons.
Obviously we cannot sustain current global standards of living.
Already starting to happen! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huqNdRj16FQ
If Microsoft's plan is to force us all onto Windows 11, it makes sense for them to stop enhancing Windows 10.
No, they bill senior hours for people with 3 years experience. Same thing.
WhatsApp has led to dozens of brutal deaths in India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings
I'm against it because nuclear waste.

IMHO it's a false dichotomy to think that if I understand climate change to be an existential threat, then I must be in favour of nuclear. Other renewables combined with less energy usage could be my preference.
Words like "flat", "equity" and even "equality" are misleading and cause confusion perhaps because they are causal terms and not scientific terms and phrases like "equivalence class" and "fungible in some context". But on the other hand such vague idealizations function so that average people can organize around a/some common cause(s) (even if it is just a vague aesthetic sense).

I have recently wondered if the word "system" necessarily presupposes that there will be hierarchy at least in some tiny amount somewhere. After all what would an actual Communist or entirely flat type "system" look like once formalized? All living systems, most technology and even meaning have asymmetric characteristics. Can anyone name an existing thing or system that the Communist utopia would be analogous too?

I would speculate that extreme inequality and hierarchy have to do with difference between additive and multiplicative dynamics in feedback. That is, if we all lived in isolated primitive groups the difference in value creation between each tribe would be like flipping coins where each flip is entirely independent of the next. In such an environment we wouldn't have as much differentiation (specialization) and grouping (organizations). The increased reach of our social and logistical networks of interactions and trade have had a multiplicative effect on an individual's ability to generate value. In recent times these networks are becoming huge and very stratified. It is like globalization (speaking very generally) is leading towards the globe becoming a literal fractal and thus power law distributions are now showing up where they were not before.

If the human superorganism is following a trend similar to Per Bak's sand pile model ("Self-organized criticality") then perhaps the end of history will be the opposite of flat.
Where I've worked they do. Finance has a target in mind, and they take into account your vesting coming up in the year and pay you less based on how much they think those vestings are going to give you.

So if your salary is 100k, and they want to pay you 200k, and they see you've got 35 RSU vesting during the year and they predict that will net you 80k, then they'll top it off with an additional 20k worth of RSUs.

Basically the stock increase is accounted for. Those 20k worth of RSUs will vest say next year, and if next year they're now worth 60k, they'll just give you less RSUs again, because now they'll repeat the same math, and see you're probably going to make 160k.
Blitting refers to rewriting bytes, yes. It does not imply dedicated hardware to do so, which is why Apple games flickered.

Calling Atari and Commodore graphics "awkward" in the scenario you describe sounds like laziness in learning and taking advantage of new graphics hardware. The sole "awkward" thing on the Atari was that, for some reason, the sprites were as tall as the screen and therefore the only way to achieve vertical movement of a sprite was indeed to move it through memory. But you could do this even in BASIC by setting the sprite data up in a character string and using the fast string functions to move it.

Both the Atari and Commodore made graphics programming decidedly non-awkward by providing automated collision detection between the sprites, and also with the background. Moving sprites around during screen refresh was common on both platforms. On the Atari, the technique (called a display-list interrupt) could also be used to put 256 colors on the screen at once and simulate multi-color sprites.

An innovative use of display-list interrupts gave rise to this cool effect that was called (by LucasArts if I recall) "altered-perspective scrolling." Check it out here in BallBlazer, a soccer-type game written for the Ataris: https://youtu.be/_tkwWD_BWWQ?t=631
> This is a stellar example of a quite rare class of magic trick where the method is actually more amazing than the effect. The vast majority of magic tricks are the opposite.

I don't know much about magic, but I've always felt that the method is almost always more amazing than the effect. I am vastly more interested in the methods, skills, and preparation that goes into a trick than I am in just watching a final performance.
Oh right! But you still say "I work at Google", instead of "I work at Alphabet"
You seem to have taken a wrong turn somewhere. If you're not being sarcastic, I'd also recommend starting the thread over.
So what's the criminal penalty for destruction of evidence? Hint - rhymes with "Fail".
I like your venus idea a lot - always seemed like the better planet to terraform anyways. Probably a LOT more chemicals and gasses to work with and of course more sunlight / heat. It has to be easier to remove shit we don't want than it might be to ship it all the way to mars.
I tried it during the election to see what it was about, and was almost immediately bombarded with political content and pizzagate-adjacent garbage. And you're just supposed to let it feed you the next engaging thing? Yikes.
Six websites to find public domain ebooks and audiobooks
Oh geez, that is terrible. None of my screens are that huge so I never got close to testing anything like that. I'll work on it!
Yes I expect unfortunately Netherlands real estate prices will be crashing hard very soon.

People who like looking ahead when investing should be thinking the same about all coastal and low lying regions. Resale value will be nil.

By the time a 30 year mortgage is over, the next buyer will be looking to the end of their own 30 year mortgage, and what they see won’t look good.

So there will be no buyers.

People don’t want to leave worthless property to their children, so the smart people who foresee this chain of events will get out now.
The routines in that case are designed to be entertaining, they don't give away secrets that aren't theirs to begin with, and there's often a double bluff where they purport to give away secrets, but there's still an element they don't disclose, or the supposed secret is just misdirection (e.g. the phone inside fish trick)

A lot of P&T tricks are boring once the secret is revealed. They don't reveal those tricks.
> It was based on equal protection and a “right to marry”.

How can one then go after same-sex marriage?
"Lost" about 70% of my TC (~1M to ~300k).

High growth company with stock down 90% since the high end of 2021
That’s not what legal precedent is.

Otherwise anytime a law is passed, we’d consider it “overturning precedent”.

Precedent means that there is a long string of legal jurisprudence on a subject. Obviously roe/griswold created a new one, but it didn’t overturn/upend an existing one.
That comment wasn't talking to you, and wasn't about what you said.
I do consulting for one OEM and all of their new vehicles over the past couple of years use encrypted bus traffic. So, it is getting much harder for third party tools to communicate with anything that is not mandated by law (most things other than DTCs and Emissions related APIs).

The sole purpose is security. Trust me, the engineers don't want to introduce any more complexity than necessary, and that's why it has been so open for so long. But, in light of hackers exposing these security vulnerabilities, there is pressure to close them. I'm sure there will be conspiracy theories about making it harder to repair cars so you have to go to the dealer. But, that's also not true -- because of Massachusetts' right to repair laws, OEM tools are available to anyone (or any shop) that wants to pay for them (in and out of MA).
No, that makes no sense at all. You might as well say you sweat/piss out half as much water as you drink. No: all of it.
If I may paint with a broad brush for a moment, it is cute watching the coasties--who derive a great percentage of their regional GDP from an all-out assault on the privacy of damn near everyone in the civilized world (adtech, analytics, finance [credit scores / front-running trades], e-commerce, "data science" [analyzing the shit out of all those privacy violations], AI [don't get me started])--go into meltdown over the loss of a "right to privacy" that was imagined into the Constitution in the first place.

I don't have strong opinions about abortion or a Constitutional right to privacy (real or imagined). I just suffocate on the hypocrisy of these people.
Just OCR against the card-corners may be sufficient.

I guess you also need suits, but that's only four special characters (all of which may be in more-modern OCR-libraries).
No. If there's a 50/50 decision, none of the options are good and you need to work out a third. Or at least discuss and adjust the available options a bit more until you get a clear majority to support one of the options.

The worst thing you can do in a 50/50 situation is to just make a call and steamroll the other side. You're very likely making a bad decision and enemies at the same time.
Apple expanding R&D hub in Palestinian Authority
No but they can correlate things to a ridiculous amount of resolution. Sure, millions of people hit the Reddit API every day but I can guarantee no other person on earth hits it at exactly the same time as you do, repeatedly.
In Germany, politicians are rarely convicted, they just end up resigning or being pushed to organizations or foundations like the EU.

Von der Leyen has many scandals under her belt, including ones that involved important phone messages being lost. Who knows!
Why do you need new categories when the old ones fit?

A Ponzi over Blockchain is still a Ponzi.
Given that ferrets are legal to keep as pets in Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon, it's probably not terribly difficult to quantify the ecological and agricultural impact in places similar to California.

I don't know if any such research has been done, but I suspect if it was done and found significant harm, there would be a movement to ban ferrets in one or more of those states. My very brief web search did not find one.
> But it’s fine for your neighbors to make noise throughout the day and night and host (for free) lots of different guests in their spare bedroom?

No, it’s not and that’s banned as well.

> Like these discussions seem so odd because while you could just ban the undesirable behavior there’s some recognition that it would never pass because it’s ridiculous and people move on to banning things associated with the undesirable behavior.

The undesirable behaviour includes the presence of strangers in my apartment block, who are given the key to the main door.
TB has some strange UX decisions IMO, but overall it's pretty nice and I wish Mozillians to keep hacking on it for a long time.
Huh, I meant MikusR :(

Anyway, I think my comment is still valid.

The "special relationship" is just fanboy fantasy. Qualcomm and Marvell have both in past done ground up designs that significantly differs from any ARM silicon.

If you don't believe me, fell free to provide actual proof of this special license.
Fossil fuels aren't going to be given up even remotely soon. They'll still be in use a century from now... because the alternative is pre-civilization, and nobody's going to go for that. Nobody. Billionaires are definitely not giving up their private jets, their 300 foot yachts filled with Russian whores, and their 15,000 square foot mansions that show just how grand and powerful they are.

Normal people aren't giving up their 70 degree indoor air conditioning in the middle of Florida, Texas, or California summers of 100+ degrees, either. You know what else us normal people aren't going to give up? Going to the store and getting a ribeye steak.

Technology is going to have to come up with solutions that we can live with, and we're going to have to accept some of the negatives of climate change. Period, end of story. Rich people aren't going to voluntarily suffer. And most of the Western world is "rich".
> Why isn't this destruction of essential information infrastructure

It may be deemed "vandalism" by seasoned editors, though Arb might chose more salient descriptors.

I don't recall right now what the legal opinion on destruction of data is, ie. irrecoverable erasure in the most trivial case, and I think they wouldn't introduce specific new laws around IT systems if it were that easy. But if it is, then analogies from destruction to somewhat impeding property is well precedented (in .de) even if it's entirely reversable in theory.

1mil words isn't that much work though, so I'd consider this a fairly quick end and not exactly news.
This is somewhat how CheatEngine works currently. I use it all the time for skipping the grind in games I would otherwise enjoy.
Reasons to Switch to Android
The Wireleap Libre Network
Minor note but many games did have ram in cart space (that's how battery backups worked, but games also used the ram for other things - most didn't need 4kb+ just for saves), so some codes were ram freezes. The game genie just couldn't force anything in system ram because it would cause bus conflicts.

Also patching isn't really the right word either. They were more like conditional freezes, because of bank switching. The game genie had no idea what bank was loaded at any given time so the codes say "if this address is this right now, make it that instead" so it would (ideally) only be active when the right bank was set. But that's why some gg codes had weird side effects, because they were affecting other banks than the important one.
Oh, yeah, you’re right. I only know about the Japanese work environments but that’s already more than enough. It’s like end-stage America
"Wild" North American raccoons here in their native range are also completely unafraid of people. Or even dogs. At least in urban areas. They basically "know" that they can't really be messed with, because it's not typically legal to shoot them, they have nasty teeth and claws, and they're ridiculously smart.
yep... robbing peter to pay paul. Until someone on your team threatens to quit, at which you're given more money all of a sudden to retain.

Sadly, 90% of them just quit before there is even a chance to give mid cycle raise.
Yes, social media. I was active in some "niche" forums (related to music scene, guitars and etc) back in the late 2000s but then Facebook started to become a thing and then Reddit, and then Twitter, Discord etc and then the rest is history.
Manipulating the price is not the same as controlling the project direction.
I consult on swag design, and its easy to stand out because most swag is trash.

I have gotten some good swag over the years, but the best was a set of sturdy metal pen/stylus/flashlight combo pens from a company who sells corporate document storage services I have not yet had a need for.
Aren't all magic tricks "cheating" in the end? Otherwise they would be real magic ;-)
Because there are too few builders.

I am trying to get an old house updated and keep hearing no one goes into those jobs anymore. The crews are aging and backed up on work.

This rag makes a huge philosophical social statement without looking at the reality; there are more office workers than builders.

You can’t build anything when everyone is preferring computer jobs and high salaries to go along.

America does not need to build more industrial nonsense. Or even homes. It needs to use empty space that it built better.

This whining about how grand greenfield projects cannot get off the ground is propaganda. Pay trades people what a programmer makes and America will build again.

But that won’t happen as Thiel, Musk and company would not have their way with human agency if it could afford it’s own.
Loving v Virginia is based both on due process and equal protection. He's not necessarily a hypocrite to be against Loving but not Roe.

But he did call out Obergefell, which is also based on equal protection, so he is very much a hypocrite for calling out that but not Loving.
What I was getting as is that you can't start with a false claim to make a convincing argument. I didn't see what the expected reduction is from the MIT research, but if it falls within known effects of the solar cycle, Milankovitch cycles, and recorded volcanic activity it's less risky than stating that it's a change that the earth has never seen.
I am really suspecting a lot of these comments from throwaway and new accounts.

Are they bots, paid chineese actors, or something else is to think about.
gmail used to be lean and mean, now it's bloated.. alas nothing new under the sun, and yeah in that regard TB is a massive relief.
In a second-world country, they would just demolish the building and maybe sell some of the control room knobs on e-bay. It might be as good as it gets in terms of involving private capital.

I personally think that mid-century technological artefacts are underappreciated.
I’ve seen people hit the 1m row limit plenty of times
Why not add solar cells and capture energy to power satellites or other space vehicles?
Discussing chip design in contrast to other chips is useful for discussion.
In short, Programmers are not great Negotiators. Thus, they get "the business" from The Business.
Sometime in the past 5 years, I’ve noticed more and more construction workers wearing these vests that have fans blowing into them here in Japan.

https://kuchoufuku.com/
> When you read and return a book it COSTS the author...

Wait, does this mean Amazon deducts more from authors for a return than it pays them for a sale?
It more so hinders the concept of seniority and credentials vs merit.
High quality shirts IN THE RIGHT SIZE are never trash
I’d love to see the context and reactions if possible? Thanks!
Is Tether the next stablecoin to fall?
Following your argument to its logical conclusion, we should cease human activities on Earth too (otherwise, humans will die there - and we can't have that!).
Here's an article from 2017 talking about this class of devices:

https://elie.net/blog/security/fuller-house-exposing-high-en...
For such a litigious company it’s a wonder how…passionate the Nintendo fanbase can be.
They mean https://notion.so
There are also tons of people in California who already own ferrets illegally (one of my friends growing up did) and yet there's no feral ferret problem in California. Meanwhile there are now feral parrot populations (descended from escaped pets) in my hometown near San Diego that weren't there 15 years ago, and I haven't heard anyone talk about banning parrots for that reason.
What about the right to vote on abortion laws?
If that's the standard we have on hackernews it's not that hard to imagine why the vast majority of people simply don't care who trades their data.
Probably not the best use of archive resources, but you could store a snapshot of it, so hn commenters can believe you.
> this publicity is poised to create yet another distraction and delay necessary actions.

More knowledge and options are always better. It's up to the people we've chosen to lead us to actually choose an option and follow through, and I don't think one more option there is really what's preventing that.

Preventing more options from being presented is just a way to attempt to control the populace by restricting information. Necessary action won't be taken unless there's strong leadership willing to make it a priority, and there's already enough options on the table that whether none or 100 new ones pop up, it makes no functional difference to getting started seriously, but it does possibly allow for a better option to be chosen when we do.
People have problems with cats and chickens? Dogs, sure, but cats?

Our chickens stare down the neighbour's barn cat (who hunts full size rabbits BTW) and the cat is like... hm.... not worth it, and she moves on.

Now, I wouldn't want cats around when they're still chicks, true. A rooster comes in handy then, though.
I haven't seen that movie in a while, but the gist of that scene is burned into my brain. The grossest death of the movie, IMO, and it isn't even that gory.
You may be unaware, but the east bay portion of Bay trail connects to a lot of great bike infrastructure from the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge already. It's a very gentle grade up the entire bridge, which makes it approachable for even casual riders. The connection there has many bike paths that lead between all the East Bay cities, Oakland, Emeryville, Berkeley, Albany, and Richmond.

From Oakland it would be approximately a 45 minute bike ride (if it existed), on an ebike probably 20 minutes. About an hour from Berkeley (and 30 minutes on ebike). These times would compete with cars during rush hour.
I wish I could write or speak another language anywhere close to as well as you do English.

You're right! I certainly don't think of the words "exempli gratia" -- I literally think the letters "e g" as a mental shorthand for "for example". I often find myself writing "e.g." first, and then expanding it to "for example" when re-reading what I wrote.

Sorry. English is weird. "f.x." seems like it should be a preferable abbreviation for "for example", but it just isn't idiomatic. I figured out that was what you meant when reading it, but it definitely stood out in much the same level of wrongness as seeing code that isn't formatted correctly or that uses a non-idiomatic way of doing things (list comprehensions in Python).
Literally the whole thing, other than the bullshit at the beginning about how deeply they care about your privacy, is about information they collect about you. That's what a privacy policy is.
I had the same reaction. It's a good title.
And now you're playing the fools game by engaging with the Gosnell nonsense, giving angry debate about "shocking" things that they have changed the topic too.

Not only is it derailing of a serious issue, it is deliberately visceral, disturbing, which makes it harder to debate logically about. Standard tactic: wind them up so they don't notice the inconsistencies.
If I met a marine biologist that managed to construct their own shark, I would probably trust their shark knowledge more than their peers.
I also remember being able to do something like this with the Sega genesis game genie… you could modify some of the codes with simple changes to change the number of free lives given, for example.
23andYou: DNA Storage Is Growing, and So Is the Need to Protect Your DNA Privacy
>The idea domesticated ferrets would escape, breed, and threaten wildlife if one of the most hilarious concepts I've ever seen

New Zealanders probably don't find it so funny
Yep, this is the main idea at the moment. Currently looking for a game that needs the solution and is interesting for my social circle.
One is committing a genocide of muslims and one is playing fast and loose with your data.

It's disingenuous to assume their capabilities are the same.