skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good discussion point but the list is a little weak. You can probably google up better. My power was out for a week earlier this summer, so here's my hot take:

Once cell coverage was restored I was charging my phone and calling in to meetings in my air-conditioned car. Not too long after that I was able to borrow a generator and keep my freezer from defrosting. I would rank the generator and a good cooler over fancy radios even though I am the sort of person who occasionally buys radios he doesn't need.

You probably don't need anything more than a decent portable AM/FM radio: one with a speaker and conventional analog dial controls and that runs on batteries. You'll want a good supply of batteries, which are another topic. You will possibly benefit from a way of telling time that doesn't plug into the wall so you can turn the radio on for scheduled broadcasts to save batteries. A wall supply for normal use of the radio is also nice. You will want to listen to the station that broadcasts baseball games in the summer and high school football games in the fall and agricultural commodity prices at 5:00AM.

If you need a weather radio, you probably know it already and already have one. Otherwise they are merely nice to have, and inexpensive enough. If you want one you should get one. A dedicated weather radio with alerts that plugs in the wall and has a battery backup is ideal. I don't own one, though I would have to stop to count the radios I own that can receive weather band. I tuned in to the weather band maybe once while the power was out. We got weather alerts on our phones during the actual storm.

FRS/GMRS radios beat shouting by at least a quarter mile. You probably don't need a set. Some people get irritated, upset, tired, offended, or embarassed by shouting though, and they do let you avoid that. I like mine, which live in my toolbox and allow me to say "is it on now?" in a normal tone of voice. They're also nice for comms on multiple-car road trips and have a number of other use cases. I did not use mine while the power was out.

Scanners: mine are outdated and not much use. Useful ones that will cover digital modes and trunked systems are kind of expensive. I have found scanners nice on occasion for situational awareness beyond CB on road trips. I would have liked to have had a handheld one ready but I didn't suffer for not having one.

Ham radio: I am licensed but don't operate. I did not find my HT useful. It's a nice hobby and if you are interested at all in it you should get licensed and get a cheap radio and have fun.

CB: I have a portable CB and mag mount antenna for road trips. Great for finding out from truckers why the interstate is backed up and the best local road detour to take. It was not useful while the power was out.

Shortwave: hahah. Just not what it was since the big international broadcasters have mostly shut down. I like mine, but I don't listen to SW on it much. I cannot imagine the catastrophe that would bring back SW broadcasting in the USA.
It's my favorite FM radio though so it did technically see use.
Sounds like you’ve got a bone to pick. Upward mobility in Canada is actually better than the US. Sources:

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2014/07...

https://stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/social-mobility-is-twice-as-...

https://www.oecd.org/social/broken-elevator-how-to-promote-s...

Quote from above:

> In comparison with traditional peer countries such as the United States or Great Britain, Canada displays a far less rigid class structure. The odds of moving from poverty to the middle class during an individual’s lifetime are twice as good for a Canadian as they are for an American. The fact that Canadians enjoy Scandinavian levels of equity without having to rely on Scandinavian levels of taxation or social conformity is further testament to the importance of Canada’s education, health care and welfare systems, as well as the country’s commitment to welcoming newcomers

Your healthcare comment is also provable false. Sources:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/05/global-healt...

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...

Quote from above:

> Key Findings: The top-performing countries overall are Norway, the Netherlands, and Australia. The United States ranks last overall, despite spending far more of its gross domestic product on health care. The U.S. ranks last on access to care, administrative efficiency, equity, and health care outcomes, but second on measures of care process

Your comment:

>[Canada has] no bright hope for the future.

Seriously, what’s your agenda? Why are you spreading obvious lies and toxic nonsense? Sounds like you had a bad experience here and are keen to blame anything but yourself.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty to criticize about Canada but you come across as extremely disingenuous.

I wouldn’t disagree with the idea that opportunities (and even healthcare) are better for the highest earners (most HN users) but the evidence just doesn’t support your claims as general truths. It’s just not true.
The world react very slow. I posted a similar news 6 years ago about te same issues in Argentina https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11544254

It doesn't really require a deep study when you see values outside the normal range.
>So many doctors are completely ignorant of risks of antibiotics and other meds.

Not ignorant, complicit.
I remember seeing that Edward Snowden uses it daily. Wonder if that's still the case.
E. W. Dijkstra Archive
Chess is superdeterministic as all the moves are known in advance, but free will is still there. The "reality" might be such a superdeterministic playground that simply tells what the possible next moves are, while the players keep a pointer to one "chess" position and advance it one step at a time with their free will.
As a counterpoint, I sit on multiple hiring bars every week and have never once seen a candidate be rejected because of job hopping past. I always check, and I always bring it up, but it is a tertiary concern at best.

Though I personally agree with your assessment.
>The right of the fetus to life outweighs the right of the mother to not be inconvenienced.

A fetus that cannot survive in the abscence of the mother is not a human being. It is a clump of cells, little more than an unusually organized tumor.

I find your rhetoric less than persuasive. Are you going to accept responsibility for the inevitable consequence of the unavailibility of abortion? Not in the executive's airy sense of "I'm willing to accept that risk" but tangibly, on the dotted line, in the "every unplanned pregnancy taken to completion is your problem now" sense? Are you going to accept the responsibility for their rearing in a loving, stable household? Are you going to commit to the lifelong sacrifice that is parenting those children? Are you willing to pay, in time and taxes for the State to be able to fund and hire proxy parents, and to administer the higher number of wards of the State?

Unless you are, I believe you have no place trying to push the things you are on other people. As abortions often short-circuit lifetimes worth of suffering that would be on the horizon for the unborn, because existence in the world without that is surely thus; you are the one condemning them. If you aren't already taking in babies, your pontifications about the relative virtue of someone else's exercise of bodily autonomy don't ring to me as the basis for reasonable State enforced policy.

I don't shortchange my countrymens' liberties, and I'm willing to be convinced to see your view if your group is willing to prove to me they have skin in the game. If you're just trying to push policy out of some misguided sense of "it's the popular thing to do", begone.

If you're ready to talk orphanages and more spending on social workers which includes a living wage, and sufficient funding to hire, retain, and train sufficient numbers of them to make a reasonable dent in the increased case load this will inevitably create, and real penalties and teeth to things like abusive treatment in facilities for wards of the State. Then we can talk.

No guarantees on being convinced, but I can entertain hearing it out.
The civil plaintiffs wouldn't have settled for that sum unless they felt they couldn't prove their case in court.

Settlement goes both ways, so I don't think your argument is sound.
Different principles is not a lack of principles.
The third E seems to be evolving into coexisting directly into Profit.

Decisions and investments made over time while using a cloud platform is its own stickiness.
Shout out to the country of Georgia for being the stronghold of this since the 1920s [1]

[1] https://eptc.ge/
Many do, yes. Many also return. Why are you insisting on using absolutes in your comments?
The US acted with a lot of contempt for "commies" as they called them. The reason they didn't attack was not because of magnanimity but the very fact that world had exhausted itself with the bloodiest war in mankind over the last 6 years. By 1949, the cat was out of the bag with the RDS-1 with USSR. Until 1952, US didn't have a viable means to fly several heavy thermonuclear devices to a heavily fortified Russia & drop it (The B-52 Flying fortress was the first viable delivery vehicle which could fly high & heavy)

And they did try, if you remember Korean War happened in 1950, which was a push to terminate communism in Asia. That failed. It was not because of a lack of bombs - but winning a war takes boots on the ground eventually. And US post-war, as mentioned, had just started ramping on its military might again after the heavy material losses. WW2 was not a PlayStation game fought with cheats. US lost lots of machinery & money in the process- and desperately needed to recuperate. Driving a weathered military to fight the brutal Red Army was unthinkable (Fun fact: Japan did not surrender because of the bombs, but an impending Russian invasion very soon. They were preparing to keep fighting on. Russian brutality was a precedent that the Imperial mandarins were not prepared to face & Sakhalin was already seeing Red Army buildup. They would have exacted their revenge for their 1905 defeat with heavy costs)

Whats the point of dropping a few bombs? US didn't have enough nuclear materials post-war immediately & USSR was a vast country sparsely populated except Moscow & Kyiv. If in doubt, just look at the map of USSR & how spread out the military bases were.

Summarily, it was not magnanimity but a lack of provocation, opportunity & resources to carry out a total annihilation of its adversaries.

edit: more context
I've been using one for daily for 5 years now. $5 at a thrift store!
A home ban seems backwards. I'm more worried about ingesting glyphosate from corn products than spraying it on weeds. I don't eat weeds.
That is one of the slowest websites I’ve ever tried to use! Too bad to, because it’s a great idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
That still doesn't mean you can't use TLS 1.3 on AWS. For example, I have a Cloudfront-based site I haven't touched in years that works just fine with TLS 1.3.
Why do you think they are a great doctor
$9.99/Month
That's quite a story! What a bummer about losing sight like that, but so glad he found happiness and purpose again!
Agree! I would like to add to all of the above, the following thoughts:

In today's climate 3-4 year stints might be OK early career. Or maybe just one year as the first job out of school - it's understandable if that wasn't a good fit. But a history of 1-2 year stints without some good reason? You're a hopper and I'd burn your resume. Hard pass.

- It takes time to become really productive at a new job. I'd estimate 6 months to a year. Why invest if you're just going to leave as soon as you're finally starting to be a net positive?

- I don't think software engineering is an assembly-line job. It's a craft and I don't appreciate companies or employees trying to make it a fungible manpower vs. compensation game. You're a code-monkey-for-hire, not an engineer. It's toxic to the other engineering professionals that would be subjected to you. If I wanted that, I'd just hire consultants.

- It shows a pattern of short-term vs. long-term thinking. That pattern will often represent itself in more than just job choices. For example, taking engineering short-cuts to meet a near-term goal at the expense of long-term quality. What do you care, you'll be gone before we realize the mess you made?

Yes. Seriously bad look. But wait! Perhaps all those things I just assumed aren't true of you! What I'd say is that this is just what it looks like and what many people will assume. You should proceed with awareness of that and perhaps try to mitigate it.
In the US, criminal trials have a higher bar (beyond a reasonable doubt) than civil trials (preponderance of the evidence).

For executions there are additional things as well beyond the regular criminal trial.
How MOSS code plagiarism checking works (and how to beat it)
Would you mind sharing if it's at startups, large companies with younger or older professionals?
If I was a researcher focused on developing efficient algorithms for numerical data this example would also seem to be one of the most critical for my work.
Ideally I'd like to spend less than the $1,000 for a 12.9 screen an iPad pro would cost.
Sustainable yes, minimalist no. This sort of thing requires no intervention but an awful lot of space and preparation - https://sheepdrove.com/reed-bed
There's a lot of reasons. That is one large one, but you can also integrate natural pesticides into the genome of the plant, ie. Bt corn.
I've been running two 4K 30" displays in this form factor for 3-4 months and love it. I put the upper monitor on an arm above the lower. The upper is a bit too high for doing regular work on, but it's great status stuff (slack, music player, bugtracker, e-mail, ...).

The down side of this LG is that it's about the price I paid for the two 30" 4K displays... The curse of irregular displays, losing economies of scale.
I thought that was a acceleration.

Perhaps they'd not know of gnome tweaks, though they could remember Power Tools from Windows....
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But isn't there a similar concern with microplastics?

Plastics have been around for decades, but they're being used in greater volume every year, and we've been finding them in odd places, and we aren't sure it's safe for them to be in those places.
Mmm, still seems snappy to me. What makes you say it feels bloated?
he was a really good hedge fund manager though
Not at all the same as flash programming...
The penalty for murder is highly variable. Murder of small child is often a pittance compared to an adult.

There are other arguments involved. Was the murder brutal? Did people depend on the victim? Children have no dependents, though this is offset by the vulnerability and future life of the victim.
This is alluded to at the end of the article:

> Is it fun for him? If he manages to walk away having spent only millions in financing fees, millions in legal fees and say $1 billion in termination fees, was it worth it? What did he get out of this? The guy really seems to like being on Twitter, and he did make himself the main character in Twitter's drama for months on end. That’s nice for him I guess. Also he made the lives of Twitter’s executives and employees pretty miserable; as a fellow Twitter addict I can kind of see the appeal of that? I always assume that “everyone who works at Twitter hates the product and its users,” and I suppose this is a case of the richest and weirdest user getting some revenge on the employees. He also gave himself an excuse to sell a bunch of Tesla stock near the highs. He maybe got an edit button too? Maybe that’s worth a billion dollars to him?

But for that to be the sole reason of the whole circus is conspiracy theory.

> Musk has buying Twitter as a cover

It's a very, very annoying/distracting cover, not to mention an expensive one.
A Kotlin DSL wrapper for reveal.js
Vim is a code editor, IDEs are mouse-navigators.
Coinbase users unable to withdraw to bank accounts
The risk is larger for home usage because those concentrations are more carcinogenic.
> the European Food Safety Authority determined that glyphosate is unlikely to be a carcinogen

Yet Europe has banned glyphosate (it is allowed in the US). Curious
> Antarctica is probably 100x more hospitable than Mars and establishing a colony there must be a thousand times easier. Even then, except for a few research stations—which are also only inhabited during summers—humans have largely avoided living in Antarctica. Why make a settlement in a place where everything is significantly harder?

This is a valid point, though I'd argue there's a sci-fi allure of living on another planet that makes it inherently more compelling than living in Antarctica.
People feel good about paying discord? This, I need to hear.
> were discovered to be a weedkiller

coke is a potent weedkiller

people love to drink it

or to put it in another way: some things we eat and drink are great to kill weeds, just not selective enough or too destructive

an example: salt
Show HN: Copy React code from any site
I made this because building React components from scratch is super annoying. Most visual elements already exist on the web, and I figured there should be a way to leverage that. I hope it's useful!
I understand and mostly agree, but as a solution to someone that stated "Go is Google. Enough said." they might not find it sufficient...
These sorta combinations and things like visual block mode are why I can’t let go of vim. You can also do:

set -o vi

And get vim in your bash shell. Then you wonder what the default mode is, and it turns out it’s emacs and you can do wild things like ctrl-A to go to the beginning of the line.

And now I cringe when ever I see someone painstakingly left-arrow for 30 seconds to edit something at the beginning of their bash prompt.
Crypto Winter: Three Fundamental Problems on why Crypto/DeFi is still failing
Nice graph, have you considered making it a directed graph, and also assigning more explicit semantic meaning to the edges?

So for example, using turtle syntax [1], instead of

<https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2022/04/functional-tes...> <http://example.com/graph-edge> <https://www.testcontainers.org/>

have

<https://engineering.zalando.com/posts/2022/04/functional-tes...> <http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject> <https://www.testcontainers.org/>

The semantics of http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject is given at the url itself, but in brief:

> A topic of the resource.

> Recommended practice is to refer to the subject with a URI. If this is not possible or feasible, a literal value that identifies the subject may be provided. Both should preferably refer to a subject in a controlled vocabulary.

This would be similar to how wikidata expresses knowledge [2]:

<http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28315661> <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/P921> <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q750997>

Or in English:

"Go To Statement Considered Harmful"(Q28315661)'s "main subject"(P921) is "goto"(Q750997)

This also makes it easier to query [4], for example, you could get all articles covering a "goto" with the following SPARQL[5] query:

SELECT ?item WHERE { ?item <http://www.wikidata.org/prop/direct/P921> <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q750997> }

May help to read the RDF primer [3] also.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/

[2]: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28315661

[3]: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-primer/

[4]: https://w.wiki/5RW2

[5]: https://docs.stardog.com/tutorials/learn-sparql
A repo template to help researchers make their Python code easily reproducible
I’ve had one of these for a few weeks and am returning it. Here’s my take:

- The aspect ratio is great when rotated 90 degrees. I really liked having more vertical room for coding and documents.

- Screen scaling with Mac OS does not work well. I’ve been using BetterDisplay to address this but it still suffers from lag, banding and pixelation.

As a result I’m returning and getting a BenQ 32” 4K. If the scaling issues on mac are addressed later on I may revisit it.
you realize there are many many affluent immigrants who do not participate in the labor market but pay taxes, invest, and otherwise provide liquidity for the locals holding real estate portfolios?
140ppi is bad at book's distance but fair at arm's (or, monitor's) distance, and a definite progress from the traditional ~90ppi.
I have for about five years. Install has been fine for me across three laptops (various ThinkPads), with the caveat that I chose models known to work well with linux (you’re booting into fedora, which runs Xen as dom0). Also, the one time I had to do a lot of work was when I bought a newly released version of a laptop; a few months later I upgraded to a later version of Qubes and it installed normally.

There is an up front investment in figuring out how to partition your computer use/apps into VMs and then setting up the VMs. If you’re not already a Linux user there is also the usual learning curve of switching to Linux (most qubes users use mostly Linux vms, windows takes more work to get going, I have windows 10 working but it took some effort).

I absolutely love the disposable VM model. I do all my web surfing (except some financial sites) in disposable VMs and cannot fathom going back to downloading and executing untrusted code (JavaScript) outside a dispVM. Similarly, I cannot imagine opening documents from untrusted third parties outside a vm of some sort. Even software I don’t fully trust (e.g. Zoom, bluRay ripping software) I like to run in disposable VMs or at least their own dedicated vm.

Qubes is like any other specialized tool - it’s worth investing the time if what it offers (security and privacy) is something you especially value. Having seen supposedly exotic and advanced threats become more commonplace over the last 20 years I think we all will end up using systems to some extent similar to Qubes, at least inspired by Qubes. Some of what’s not in your threat model today will be, eventually. The only question is how much.

In practical terms, it is in some ways like going from having one computer to having a network of computers. You do become something of a sysadmin. There is some pain there especially up front but I am at the point where I am expert enough that the ongoing time and pain investment is quite minimal.

More than anything, I feel completely exposed on other OSes. I wish other operating systems (like macOS) would steal the best ideas from qubes. For example, let people open files in disposable VMs when they want to, and cause this to happen by default for downloaded files, and by default have people surf the web in the rough, more seamless equivalent of a disposable VM, possibly with some carve outs for ease of use (like make it almost transparent, with some red flag, to move downloads out of the browser vm, and do likewise with uploads). Also, Qubes has “vaults,” which are just VMs with no internet where you put your most sensitive files; I put basically all my files there because they really don’t need live internet. You could translate this on a “regular” OS into some kind of area that’s extra protected from other processes somehow. For example unprompted access to files in the vault would require explicit authorization, and files in the vault could not cause network connections by default. Something along those lines.
The problem is how knowledge in managed in our society.

A central authority administering truth to the greater unwashed mass is the popular method.

And it seems to be built into us, to get our truth that way. Truth is what the authority tells us. Contriving truth yourself is generally considered a perversion.

So there's that inertia, keeping the knowledge management system stuck this way.

Maybe high-quality society-wide pervasive knowledge is impossible.