skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, but my point was this: an armed populace is only a bulwark against authoritarianism if two things are true.

1) The arms of the populace are enough to prevent the authoritarians from maintaining power. They're guaranteed to be inferior to, say, the country's military, but they can at least be a deterrent.

2) The populace agrees on who the authoritarians are and is organized against them.

Unfortunately, both are guaranteed to be missing in the US. The military is drastically more powerful and dangerous than even a million armed civilians, and the populace certainly doesn't agree on who the authoritarians are.

The most likely scenario for the end of US democracy is that a Democrat will win in 2024 and there will be a violent uprising from the right, just as there have been many practice runs and right-wing terrorist attacks in recent years.
> It doesn't help that actual trolleys are called trams where I live

Yeah, when I clicked on the link I was hoping that finally someone had solved the problem of never having a pound coin to unlock trolleys at the supermarket.
It's in the sense of norms or standards rather than normal as in unremarkable.
What does “main line” mean in this context?
Show HN: Bookmark an article, listen to it later on your own podcast feed
Hey guys,

I drive to work a lot, spending on average of 2 hours each day. So I have plenty of time to listen to Podcast and audiobook on my ride. And I think it would be nice to be able to do the same with my reading list, but I couldn't find any decent app on the market that doing this. So I set out to do it myself.

Sooo this is the product: http://sendtopod.com/

You may ask why?

The reasons are simple:

- It's more convenient to listen to articles while you driving, running, or even before going to bed.
- Listen take less effort than reading.
- Your eyes need to rest after staring at screens all day.
- Podcast app is a great tools for listening to audio content with support for:
- CarPlay, Android Auto support built-in
- Smart queuing
- Offline listening

I see that https://hq.getmatter.app/ did a great job of read later app, it also have an OK text to speech audio, but does not have a podcast feed I can subscribe to.

I also see AudioRead.com do this but text to speech is IMHO not pleasant enough to listen to for a long time.

I'm running beta for this, would love to hear your feedback on ... anything really.

Thanks you all!
Ever heard about dowels and glue and whatnot?
If I were your friend, I'd be concerned, too.
> Nobody was really concerned about carrying 40 liters of petrol when 10 liters would have met their daily needs.`

The thing is you can fill only 10L if you want and gain the weight. An empty battery weights the same as a full one, and they're heavy as fuck to begin with.

In any major city in Europe I can rent a gas car for 60 euros a day, for this once a month event this is more than fine.

It depends if you think in term of personal comfort or in term of global optimisation/pollution. Everyone would love top have a v10 maybach, but the world would be a better place with 200km range e fiat 500.

Replacing the 1.4B ICE vehicles we have on this planet with tesla like cars is far from optimal if people use 10% of the range/perf
That is an extreme consequentialist view. Something I can relate to, but not how most people consider moral issues.

If you are in a burning, sinking ship and all going to die for sure, it's still immoral to rape someone.
The cliff is not for Earth. Climate will change gradually, segueing smoothly. Mostly. Mass extinctions, sure, but those are normal.

The cliff is civilizational collapse, which will happen very fast once a threshold is crossed. Which threshold it will be is uncertain. Ocean ecosystem collapse and mass starvation? Refugees from uninhabitable places exceed 200M, bringing fascists to power, hence war?

Civilizational collapse has happened many, many times. Just not worldwide, before. We have seen how it goes: the rich try to cushion it for themselves, hastening the crash.
It doesn’t.

Kids are the ones to whom videos need to be restricted.

Adults should be able to watch both kids and non kids videos.

So the only thing needed is for creators to mark a video as “for kids” and the algorithm to confirm that it actually is for kids.

Nothing else should even be available for kids.

If they want, they can have an additional option for creators which is “definitely not for kids”, much like you’d have an “explicit” option for music.

These wouldn’t require an algorithmic check and simply not be available to those under 18.
> the strongly-help uninformed opinion of randos on the internet

Funny, based on my inside info you look to be one :) Maybe should shouldn't assume so much, since you are obviously keenly aware of of how one might look on the web.
Good point re being signed in.

Logged in:

Watching RedLetterMedia video, get recommended a clickbaity video about comic books: https://postimg.cc/QVkc7QwQ

Watching Colombo snippets, get recommended some celeb Net Worth trashy video: https://postimg.cc/grRNTL5j

Climate Town links to some unrelated video about Orlando amusement parks: https://postimg.cc/jW0zNMxh

These are way milder than I remember, btw.

Logged out, no weird recommendations:

https://postimg.cc/gnLXD3Bt

https://postimg.cc/DJDfJMFv

So yeah, logged out doesn't have that 3rd obnoxious video, which is kind of interesting.
Movable Feast Machine
The idea I mentioned is hard to explain in a comment, but I’ll try to message the essence, at least what works for me.

Which is, there is a chance (and further reasoning bases on it) that we all don’t feel as a single entity only because we are physically separated by low-bandwidth channels, e.g. visual, auditorial, text. Opposed to parts of our brains, which are connected by high-bandwidth links. This creates an illusion of self, while we all are actually the single phenomenon divided into islands. Under this idea the thing that matters (to some) is your own physical structure, not from which eyes specifically “you” are looking at the moment, because “you” are everywhere.

Some call it the hard problem of consciousness, or a part of it, but details may heavily vary.

Hope that provides a glimpse into it.

Added: also curious, from your perspective, do you really die when Scott “beams you up”?
...followed by a 1 hour debate on slack and a series of meetings with an ever increasing number of non-technical managers before a likely unsuccessful outcome.

Arguably worth trying anyway, but let's say I want to say "No" to 3 of these new misfeatures per week. Do I still have time to do any work? Probably not. So I'll pick my battles.
The same applies to all domains using Office 365 for emails. DNS lookups seem to time out most of the time, but occasional ones get through. Seems to be affecting EMEA more than other regions.
Telemetrics and sensors data could (at least theoretically) produce billions of row per hour per single sensor.
My gut reaction was to kill the rich person.

I justify it like this: a world where well-being is decided by wealth is unjust and undesirable, so trying to enjoy your privilege is a moral wrongdoing because it very directly prevents the spreading-out of wellbeing. This makes it equivalent to the littering problem (in mode, not scale), where I chose to kill the litterer.

I'm not confident, but that's how I rationalize it. I'd love to hear any thoughts on this.
Build an IoT Dog Alarm So Your Furry Friend Can Tell You They Want to Go Outside
This is not an innocent question, this user is a Kremlin tool, reading his comments on reddit is pretty disgusting, here's for example blaming Ukraine for the fact Russia is bombing hospitals: https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/vp08m0/the_health_c...
Why is this even in hacker news?
The comparison of SBF to JP Morgan is a fantastic example that people are still too bullish on crypto.

Firstly, SBF is no where near as important to crypto as JPM was to banking institutions. Secondly, crypto is a tiny tiny tiny asset class compared to the actual banks in 1907, Bitcoin's "market cap" is in the same order of magnitude as Apple's cash on hand, and the outflow of capital from crypto is massive for crypto but a drop in the ocean for real asset classes. Thirdly, even if, in some bizarro world SBF managed to stabilize the crypto companies, who actually cares? 1907 was about real peoples lives and life-savings. Let's assume that all these wobbling crypto companies survive. Will we look back on it like 1907? No - because it genuinely doesn't matter.

This whole comparison sits on a pre-crash premise that the crypto space actually represented something of value. That it was some important thing.
One could speed up things by having a ML model for rating dicks.

Until someone creates thisdickdoesnotexist.com to game the system.

PS: apparently the domain is up. IDK... I ran out of original ideas.
$ curl --head -H "Accept: text/plain" https://bun.sh/install

HTTP/2 200
date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 10:21:57 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
...
Calling TCS a sweatshop is pretty crazy. There are office politics you will run into if you are a high performer, or even working hard to rise through the ranks. Other than that it's a pretty chill place. Your mind will eventually rot with no relevant work experience though. So definitely not 996, but not a great place either.

Anyway the amount of generalisation in both the question and your quite incorrect answer is pretty funny.
Isn't the most likely outcome that engineering salaries will go up even higher causing massive inflation?
Nails?
I love these super-ambitious projects (see Parcel, Rome.js) because after several years they will still fail in many areas at once!

> Rome is a formatter, linter, bundler, and more for JavaScript, TypeScript, JSON, HTML, Markdown, and CSS.

> Rome is designed to replace Babel, ESLint, webpack, Prettier, Jest, and others.

Haven't seen it since.

> Parcel: The zero configuration build tool for JavaScript, CSS, HTML, TypeScript, React, images, SASS, SVG, Vue, libraries, Less, CoffeeScript, Node, Stylus, Pug, Electron, Elm, WebGL, extensions, GraphQL, MD

As long as you do the bare minimum for each target.
To be blunt (like the AI is): glasses are a signal of a disability, similar to crutches, or neck braces
There is indeed about a 30% reduction in power usage when comparing trams to electric buses.

https://bathtrams.uk/the-most-energy-efficient-mode-of-publi...

Still, I feel that trams will be dying soon. The improved efficiency is simply not enough to justify the extra infrastructure and inflexibility. Modern battery electric buses have a range of 500+km and can thus be used for an entire day, and charged at times when electricity is cheap and green (ie overnight on wind energy).
What torrent clients offer native I2P support?
Does this really work for jump to file? (we're not talking language statistics or supressing diffs on PRs, which is mostly what linguist readme is talking about).

Quoting the docs on finding files:

https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/searching-on-github...

> File finder results exclude some directories like build, log, tmp, and vendor. To search for files within these directories, use the filename code search qualifier.

(The inability of quick jumping to files from /build/ folder with `T` has been driving me crazy for YEARS!)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but checking those two files:

- https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

- https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/master/lib/linguist/...

I don't see `/build` matching anything there. So to me this `/build` suppression from search results seems like controlled by some other piece of software at GitHub :/

Also, files from `/build` are not hidden in diffs, so per this table: https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/HEAD/docs/overrides.... they are not "linguist-generated".
UK NHS chemotherapy drug delivery drone trials
I think there was a mix, but people taking the quiz interpretation definitely modified the results from what I expected.
Reminds me of Scott's The Pyramid and the Garden https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/05/the-pyramid-and-the-ga... , about how many bits of freedom you need to get a conspiracy theory like the Pyramid of Giza encoding the speed of light.
Force the use of only threads in your channels, where the initial message is the topic, to relieve most of annoyances of slack.
I would suggest looking into the following areas for inspiration as well:

- Xanadu and related systems for linking information

- CardboardWM (how it does user's working canvas)

- Desktop Neo – (https://desktopneo.com/) & Muse — dive into big ideas(https://museapp.com/)

- The ecosystem of templates and tooling for Notion

- TreeSheets (https://strlen.com/treesheets/)

My gut feeling is that going deep into interoperations within apps will be very challenging and require intrinsic knowledge of each platform (always evolving) interfaces.
Even if your home is poorly insulated it would take a long time to recoup the (direct and indirect resource) costs of a new home with better insulation.

Taking into account future discounting, it's probably almost never a good idea.
Curious why you suggest all JS build tools suck... previous company I was at had .NET, Java (backend), golang, iOS, Android and JS (react) builds, that all compiled, ran unit tests, packaged and deployed to relevant targets. The react build was the least problematic by far (though we did get bitten on upgrading the host OS which upgraded node to a version incompatible certain older packages being used, but it didn't take too long to fix). Accepted, there was probably a little less functionality in that component than the mobile apps , but iOS was far and away the most problematic, FWIW).
Because someone posted it, and others upvoted it. Do you even know how HN works?
glory hole et.al.
My reasoning was someone onboard might make a valuable contribution to the world even if they are stuck on the trolley, and the cost to the rest of society for letting it run seemed small.
Deaths with unknown causes now Alberta's top killer
> Going from having my supervisor coaching me in my PhD to being basically totally unsupervised and free to work on what I want

This was my case during my PhD (physics). My supervisor was not competent enough in my field of studies to help me from a science perspective (I had a co-supervisor who had more information, but not too much - it was a really unique area at that time).

BUT - he was a wonderful, extraordinary person when helping me travel the muddy waters of academia. He was always there to arrange after some, let's say, more "heavy" discussions. I was really delighted to have him as a supervisor.

He also let me roam free in innovative areas, he supported me when I wanted to publish 45 pages of thesis, when the norm was more 200+. He was really, really great.

I started to work in academia during my PhD and he was concerned I would not finish it. I sworn him that I would, before the end of the millenium. I had my defense mid December of the last year :)

I kept on visiting him over the years, presented him my children but he unfortunately died last year. RIP Prof. J.
Rewriting into a safe language actually has some benefits - namely safety compile time guarantees.

Only RAM manufacturers like memory leaks.
Well, there's always the heat death of the universe, rendering everything meaningless.
You've still got 2 years!
This is one of those confusing things as immigrant in NL, on one side the toleration allows all those weekend smokers tourism, especially in amsterdam and it helps the economy (well, debatable) but then the whole coffee shop activity (you can sell but you can't buy) is clearly borderline illegal and by legalizing it could help put under the sun a lots of underground world.

and maybe hit on those narco gangs which looks like are behind de Vries assassination
This aspect of professional life isn't taught at schools and universities (or at least I never heard anything like it).
Err, if this was really true, I would think it’s the fully armed military of the us doing the trick rather than the population. If this military decided to act in country, there would be little gun owners could do to stop them. Unless there’s a whole lot of manpads and anti tank weapons secreted in Montana the feds don’t know about.
Kinda. This was an example I made up on the fly, but sometimes you don't just want to exclude a term from the search, but you want to see it explicitly semantically excluded in the document.

Eg, "js without transpilation" gives quality results, but often times, especially when it's dealing with more popular search queries, it just kinda focuses on the keywords without any context.

For the search "social media without kids" I was actually looking for some articles that would focus on how the content changes depending on the age group. Or articles about social media focused on "adult things" like HN.

What I got was https://imgur.com/a/0tt8g4r

And I won't even get started on the blog spam content aggregate sites which seem to be over half of the results.

Google seriously needs to find a way out of this mess.
many people do go 160+ in Austria, then hit the brakes when the speedcam approaches, then speed up again.

that said the problem is, according to my observations, is that the German highways are full, there are more cars, so it's harder to go at almost any speed. so yes, it's more stressful.

(and just to mention something else stressful on German highways: Hochzeit Korsos! we had the pleasure to see one very close this year on the ring around München)
Life Checklist – Neal.fun
Rising Covid cases in China spark further lockdowns
Everyone here has been jumping in and saying "use my great service" or "use this great service".

But could I be the voice of reason here and jump in and remind the OP and everyone else to avoid putting all their eggs in one basket.

Even if you can't afford to replicate 6TB on multiple services, you should at the very least seriously consider picking, say three hosting services (preferably in different jurisdictions) and putting 2TB in each one.

In terms of offline/non-live backup itself, 6TB is really not that much these days. You could just buy a bunch of high-capacity hard drives, create multiple copies and spread them out via old-school "sneakernet" to your collaborators in different jurisdictions. Sometimes KISS is the best solution.
Nude pictures don't qualify as blackmail material? Clearly they do, to some people, as there are numerous cases of nudes being used for extortion.

I doesn't seem far fetched that there could be a significant overlap between men who have enough insecurity about themselves to pay for the service, and men who would be amenable to blackmail using said photos.

Besides, it's not just the photo. Likely other things were shared as well, and the embarassment of having paid for online sexting might be more than enough for some people. Especially if they're married...
You both realize that you can change that setting, right? Settings -> Personalization -> Lock screen. It has always been there.
Self-hosted Vault within a minimum Kubernetes cluster in GCP costs us roughly $35 a month. Maintenance effort can be neglected if not scaling. Vault has its learning curve there but I think it's totally worth it, given its secret management and API-first features integrated with many other DevOps tools.
I think this is the first time I've seen a Pleroma link "in the wild" without me searching for it.

I am very happy it's catching on. Cheers!
Ask HN: What type of lamp (or light/lumen) do you use in your home office?
Hi! I'm wondering what lamps other devs are using in their home office while working.

I have this thing in my eyes called "eye floaters" and I find it particularly annoying when I'm in very bright environments.

Tips are more than welcome!
Not true.

GNOME 1.x, 2.x and 3 from 3.00 to 3.27 supported desktop icons.

They were removed in 3.28:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/01/gnome-desktop-icons-remo...

It was only in 2018.
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.28/

This is not ancient history. It's less than 5 years ago.
You didn't get the browser popup asking if you to confirm that you want to leave? Were you on Firefox? Maybe you were redirected to another national site.
Isn’t the criticism of this use case that since the exchange of value is not native to crypto itself, its worth as a medium of exchange is sensitive to governments allowing it to persist as a conduit for illegal transactions. Is it really impossible for a government crackdown to make crypto just as hard to exchange illegally as, say, regular currency?
Thanks! Great point
The entire marketing for Chrome was that V8 was faster.

Since 2019, it seems like JSC is actually faster (they even beat V8 benchmarks).
Which is a feature introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" nearly 20 years ago, under the name Spotlight, and now implemented in Windows Vista and almost every OS or desktop since then.
Thanks! Do you think it would help if you had a live preview environment that came with every PR, so you could better understand the context of the changes you are reviewing?
Europe wants a high-speed rail network to replace airplanes
That is not even similar. Come on, play fair.
Some time in 1994 I had a part time job at the local university helping them figure out how to make use of Gopher and WWW. I wrote a 40ish page booklet on HTML, the university printed them and placed boxes of the booklets in the lobby of half a dozen of the main buildings so people could just grab them. And I think about half the student body did.

A couple of weeks later I was hitching a ride with someone and we started talking about what we do. He said that "I'm teaching people this new thing called HTML". Then he reached back into the back seat and pulled out a booklet. He had a whole box of them. Apparently he had just taken a whole box of them from the university and was using this as his course material.

I never told him I wrote it. Actually, I was a bit proud that someone could make a living using teaching materials I'd written and I didn't want to embarrass him. (And since the university had printed boxes of them it wasn't like there was any shortage. My main mission was to get people to use WWW so I didn't mind).

I'd probably cringe if I read it today :-).

(However the thing I'm most proud of from that period was to ensure that policies on student access to publishing materials on their homepages without needing to get the content explicitly approved were adopted across norwegian universities. There was a meeting between the universities to figure out what policies to adopt. I didn't have any real authority, but I managed to convince everyone that what students put on their homepages is none of our business as long as they don't break the law or hurt themselves or someone else.

During that period I also learned that one of the most efficient ways to kill bad policies is to follow them to the letter and generate so much work for other people they need to rethink the policies. :-))
"you" are not the thoughts and emotions that happens to reside in some sack of meat. Or at least that's not a complete picture. In some sense "ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee" should be taken literally. 100% individualism is not the only mode of being a person, and not the default or "best" mode.

These are mostly gut feelings and unfinished thoughts. I'm not sure about any parts of it except "it's not a complete picture". I'd love to hear any thoughts on this and reading recommendations are welcomed.
Expanding artistic frontiers in artificial intelligence
It's still very slow compared to binary formats. Especially indexed ones like SQLite.
Pretty much. To simplify a bit: the most stable atom is iron-56 anything lighter can be fused and anything heavier can be split to release energy. Essentially after iron the forces that bind atoms together start to lose out to the repulsion between it's constituents, which makes heavier atoms more and more unstable.
This is also why stars that start to fuse iron together will start to cool down.