skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing with Sinema and Manchin is that the alternative to them isn't a non-obstructionist Democrat, it's a Republican. "Getting rid" of them would do nothing to help Dems.
I played this with friends in middle school. We found the text file that contained the messages that displayed when a player launched an attack or died, and edited them to include Monty Python quotes.

I didn't have a lot of friends, haha.
The question isn’t if catching COVID provides some level of protection, the question is if people who have gotten COVID should also get vaccinated.

Saying a study is garbage when you disagree with the results is not how evidence based medicine works. Unless there was actual fraud or gross incompetence, every study should provide something of value.

Hypothetically, if vaccination provides enhanced short term protection for people after catching COVID which also provides short term protection then recommending waiting X months after getting COVID to get vaccinated is one option. Alternatively, if post COVID vaccination did absolutely nothing then you could recommend skipping it, ignoring false positives.
You need windows pro or higher, it is in one of the options dialogs.
Hang gliders seem quite imprecise, https://www.google.com/search?q=bamboo+framed+hang+glider
I thought so too. We're all adults here.

I did add a recommendation to "lead by example" – which is something within the immediate control of the person asking the question.

What do you think about that?
Nomial – A fast, robust, and small polynomial root finder in TypeScript
The video clip omits the most important part of Vonnegut's lecture. He does Hamlet and it's a flat line. It's odd because this is the point of the article yet the clip omits it.

See this one, for example (near the end):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_RUgnC1lm8

Vonnegut concludes:

"We don't know enough in life to know what the good news is and the bad news is."

Cinderella and the rest are fantasy. Hamlet is the truth. Life is ambiguous and stories that tell us otherwise are lying to us.

This story graph thing has been quoted out of context so many times that people have completely forgotten the point Vonnegut was trying to make.
He also makes the good point that the optimal amount of fraud is not zero.
I didn’t
when i saw that the former head of institutional lending of celsius was in a porno i realised to stay away from this dodgy company.
This can be solved very easily at the search engine level.
he's switching jobs, apparently

> according to Meduza’s sources, Dmitry Rogozin will become one of the Kremlin’s supervisors for the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics” and the other Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/07/13/the-president-likes-...
I never knew about them until he mentioned them
This feels dubious to me (edit: and I was right, the headline is a lie, pretending a warning about a potential future problem has already happened)

Does smart mean internet connected? I guess I'm impressed if they have 40% market penetration. But the behaviour of having a default time to turn on describes pretty much every timer based thermostat. One of the big sales pitches of 'smart' thermostats was that thermostats with timers were too hard for normal people to set up and so their potential gains went unused. So if people are literally reducing their energy usage during the night as a result of 'smart' thermostats then that's a good thing.

Ah, you don't have to read beyond the abstract to see how it's been misrepresented:

> We find that despite lowering overall energy consumption

Lets just pause a moment and take in the full impact of that opener....

> smart thermostat control algorithms can severely increase the winter peak heating demand through load synchronization during the early morning hours, when solar energy is unavailable.

Note the use of the word can and peak here. And that it says elsewhere that wind is available at this time.

And the solution they propose, is to make the thermostats 'smarter' with regard to carbon intensity and predicted supply/demand which is the whole reason for having a smart thermostat connected to the internet in the first place.

Vague negative lies about anything that stops fossil fuels getting burnt is a real weird feature of our current society. It's like you've offended someone's god or something by suggesting burning less of an expensive poison is a good thing.

This is their open source code btw: https://github.com/zlee406/smart-heat
That would be a good goal, but how can you make it witout imperialism? Not through nation states or representative democracies but through voluntary networks that can compose.
Lightning McQueen is even the same color as the doc's car.
Oh man, memories
What ? No. My project is the most important. Now only if someone would specify good interoperability requirements.
> fragile base class problem

I do wonder whether this is as much of a problem as people think. Most of the time it only becomes a problem when people start doing stupid things to override the parent instead of refactoring a new class out from under it.
That builds up to a conclusion that this guy is the sort of super-hacker you see in the movies. I don't believe he was stupid/clever enough to infect the trial judge's computer with a virus.
Don't you just love how first you learn about the Bill of Rights, and then you learn that there's a bullshit loophole our judicial system uses to bypass every goddamn rule in the entire Bill of Rights?
I think the idea of federation of domain-specific search engines, possibly tied together by one or more front-ends, is a brilliant idea.

I think it's similar to how Google's search works internally, though I doubt the separation is based on a list of domain (as in DNS) names. IIRC they have a set of search modules, and what they return (and how fast they return it) all gets mixed in to the search results according to some weighting. Right below the ads.

If you look at a search system that way, it's easy enough to add modules that do things like search only wikipedia, and display those results in a separate box (like DDG), or parse out currency conversion requests, and display those up top based on some API (like Google). etc
I'm imagining this feels like the first time you let your kid walk to a friends house - so curious, young, naïve, just wandering as you watch anxiously from the sidelines.
Just wait till the deps go away or change in some significant way.
I’m curious. You’ve posted something boneheaded and wrong and been proven so in the responses. Will you issue a mea culpa or will you just quietly crawl away and keep spreading falsehoods in other threads? So often, it’s the latter.
Playing Ranked/Competitive game modes comes with the implicit contract to your teammates that you try your best and play in good faith.

I don't think necessarily you have to follow the meta. But it's like best practices. Better stay within them when you are playing with a completely new team.

There's other game modes in all those games to try wacky stuff and/or play just for fun it's unranked/casual and custom game modes.

You wouldn't sign up for a ranked league in real life to just mess around. It would be disrespectful to your teammates and you would rightly get kicked.
Gays are a minority in every democracy, and this does not make them marginalized in all those countries.

To the contrary: democracy makes it more likely that they are tolerated and included.

So your argument is not at all compelling.

Also, to help you see it: take European Union as an example.

It is only a loosely integrated democracy, but still, we elect EU MPs etc.

EU does not prevent at all to have traditions and to "respect" the existence of geographically distinct "samples" of humans (its member countries, or its member intrastate regions, etc).
I would argue every story has a vast, seemingly infinite* number of shapes, limited only by our ability to model objectives toward which events can be classified as positive or negative. Still, that doesn't make it a useless method of analysis because we can find objectives that can be applied across stories in a somewhat universal way. Or, authors can simply come up with objectives that they think might be interesting.

*I suppose these numbers would be combinatorically constrained by a function of the number of graphemes/phonemes, and not actually infinite, but still huge.
As discussed further down, kites were indeed seen as useful for the military in the late 19th century. Wikipedia says[0]

> In the early 1890s, Captain B.F.S Baden-Powell ... developed his "Levitor" kite, a hexagonal-shaped kite intended to be used by the army in order to lift a man for aerial observation or for lifting large loads such as a wireless antenna.

A glider may not have been suitable for carrying an antenna, but aerial observation via glider is an idea that must have occurred to people in the army, even before the invention of the IC engine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-lifting_kite
> You say the anthill is the result of the amazing collaboration of all the ants in the colony, but look here is an ant that goes off doing nothing. What say you now?

I say the big picture is that the steam engine was developed within a legal system that in general protected IP rights, at least respected them on a completely different level than before. Granted there are more pieces to the puzzle, but let's not forget one of the most important pieces.
Being downvoted on "hacker" news for wanting to use only FOSS devices.

(As a side note, you can use a FOSS smartphone like PinePhone)
Good open source alternatives exist for everything you mentioned. There would be some temporary pain if MS disappeared but the world would adapt and move on.
With UE the 5% only kicks in after the first million dollars. This solution you provided seems worse as now Im paying for seat licenses and royalties.
Character assassination? He assassinated his own character. Character suicide.

He ran a child porn server:

> At one point, he volunteered to grant his new friends access to the child-porn archive on his server.

Sexually assaulted a passed-out roommate:

> When F.B.I. investigators searched Schulte’s phone, they found something especially alarming: a photograph that looked as though it had been taken inside the house in Sterling, Virginia, where he had lived while working for the C.I.A. The photograph was of a woman who looked like she was passed out on the bathroom floor. Her underwear appeared to have been removed and the hand of an unseen person was touching her genitals. State investigators in Loudoun County subsequently identified the woman and interviewed her. She has not been publicly named, but she told them that she had been Schulte’s roommate and had passed out one night, with no memory of what had happened. The encounter in the photograph was not consensual, she assured them.
To me, OOP always meant passing messages to objects, but it seems everyone has their own definition depending on experience.
Pfft, how about 36 basic stories?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situ...

Or 134?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarne%E2%80%93Thompson%E2%80...
I'm surprised that nothing happened when I reached the bottom of the article. Could definitely have got more engagement by having a "you've reached the bottom!" pop-up offering more content or to subscribe.
I use Trail of Bit's Algo to run a VPN with adblock; it works quite well to block ads and tracking on iPhone, though it's pretty crude so will miss a bunch of stuff.
No, you really don't. You get an exaggeration of the margins of society (very often one specific direction) that is discriminated against elsewhere, unless you're also the biggest and most profitable platform. And that's YouTube.

You saw the same effect with Gab. These spaces become polarized very fast based on who is already there and what the admins believe is adequate moderation.

Odysee seems more right leaning. I don't see queer content creators on there, for instance, despite YouTube heavily demonetizing and recommendation-banning them too.

This is why I really want federated spaces, because they can serve different margins of society without becoming isolated islands.

Folding Ideas made this point (about VidMe) half a decade ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3snVCRo_bI
Well, integrated circuits started as just 'more than one component' on the same device. So a sensor and a switch perhaps. Or a resistor network. Etc. Start there and you rapidly improve (just like it happened later)
Aren't the authors of the smart contact a third party? Unless they're so simple a layperson can inspect, read, and understand them.
The plans you hear of, those are the failures.

A well-executed assassination is one that is never linked back to them.
SerenityOS has had pledge and unveil for a while now, to the point where many system tools implement pledge by default. The video covering a reimplementation of justine.lol's pledge.com was uploaded yesterday (https://youtu.be/T6YkQF6ohoA) leveraging these APIs to replicate the original tool's behaviour (though it needs some pledges just to spawn the child process which I think are a bit clunky, but surely can be worked around).
But once you are up there you are up there, and professinal glider pilots can stay up there for ever, using thermals etc.
Probably not.

Microsoft runs Azure, and that underpins quite a bit of internet-based services. But Google seems to be the king of internet services and most smartphones, and Amazon (along with the world's biggest store) has AWS, which owns even more backends than Azure. (Remember US-East going down? What if that was permanent?)

I'm struggling to find analogues to other industries. If a big oil company shut down tomorrow, the world would be in a lot of hurt, but other companies would likely buy the existing operations and infrastructure and resume operations. If Tesla or Toyota were gone, people would buy some other brand.
Has anyone experimented with creating a search engine that only indexes the landing page of domains? I’m less interested in another Google, and more interested in a way to find new and interesting sites/blogs/etc. Stumbleupon was great for this back in the day.

Seems like it would be an interesting experiment to see what the results would be, indexing only the content / meta tags of “index.html”.
I was always under the impression that it would be cool to have solar cells or mirrors automatically follow the sun using mechanical processes like those depicted in the article, without the need for additional electronics and motors.
Does something like this exist and I only don't know of it?
In many countries, the preparation of many serious crimes, (murder included) is criminal on its own.
True, but if you where in a front-end project doing JS with some WASM parts that happened to use Rust for the WASM, you'd probably not ask yourself "JS or WASM?", you'd ask yourself "JS or Rust?" when deciding where to put some logic.

And I'm not sure if we can assume that all languages that offer compilation to WASM would be roughly "rust fast": I wouldn't be surprised if we already had some examples that aren't really good matches for that tight inner loop case you might want to wasmify. Perhaps there are already some that just want to get the "runs in browser" checkbox ticked?
I mean no offense, but it looks like you're just providing guesswork and making up answers.

> "I would highly suspect in a court of law that is not true."

OK, but why, and in what court and in what legal system?

> "You see, you have a contract with the registar for the domain."

It's not the registrar that sells the domain. They are brokers between registrant and the entity owning the TLD, and registrars also have domestic laws to abide to.

> "You can put whatever information you want there ..."

No you can't, not in European nations part of the EU. While not legally enforced, registrars based here are required to request and urge customers to put accurate and truthful information there. Some of them (e.g. OVH) even require personal identification documents in order to register a domain. In my case, with my .se domain, I cannot change anything in the contact records without providing verifiable identification data - part of which goes into my contact records.
I've spent some time casually learning Rust in the past few weeks, and I'd really like to start incorporating it into my serious C++ projects. Rust itself is nice, but having a reliable package manager & build system in the form of cargo is absolutely the killer feature for me.

If I could use Cargo/cxx_build as my C++ build system (which I think may be possible, but I haven't seen a good example), I would fully embrace rust & start incorporating it into my professional work today.
Why is the interface string-based? Seems very hacky and unusual. Also, special bonus evil points for whoever decided that "rpath" should have nothing to do with RPATH.

Seriously please can all of you other programmers stop pointlessly abbreviating things that are already quite short?! "read_path" is perfectly fine.
Hey ultrasounder!

First off, even if it's a big request, I very much appreciate your input. Thank you.

> "...so that we can all keep tabs on how long every other participant is hogging the meeting"

The idea of "Unblah for teams" has come up in here and it seems like an obvious idea – it did to me.

I'm starting to doubt that adding this accountability-layer top-down is a good idea.

Honestly, I wouldn't want that myself as a team-member. It's a very personal quest to grow and change.

And so funnily enough: Before launching, I had doubted making the app so ultra-local, native and stand-alone.

Now I'm realizing that may be one of its strengths!

What do you think?
After he was charged for child pornography, he called it a "a non-violent, victimless crime." So, even if it was planted… this guy is the worst.
AI May Inherit Human Cognitive Limitations, Could Benefit from Formal Education
Hmmm I like the creativity but think I'd rather just keep my wrenches in their compact carrying case so I can take them wherever I need them easily...
It took an epic ego combined with a highly selective interpretation of history to write this book. America in particular has a rich history of utopian separatist movements. The internet doesn't bring anything new to the table, apart from the facility to organize from afar, which has certain advantages but also many drawbacks.

I encourage experimentation. Maybe Balaji can get it right where all the others have gotten it wrong. But, I find this book highly unconvincing. Modest, secular federalism has proven itself to me in principal, and I much prefer to fix the problems we have rather than scrap the whole system.
I really like the animated gif. It really is useful to show how the program works.
>"90% of the time this is dumb overhead, but 10% of the time it found a bug in some edge case, so I learned to appreciate it as a tough teacher, and my designs got better for it."

Sounds kind of like Stockholm syndrome
Technically, the browser is an App that happens to run Apps written in HTML+JS+CSS. There can be good and bad apps of each kind, for example Figma has very good UX despite being a web app.

However that's not the point, what we call Apps and what we call websites or Web apps are programs with different discovery and retention mechanisms and that is exactly the reason why Apps are better than Websites or Web Apps.

A Website has one chance to establish a relationship to you and to monetise you. That's why we see all those tracking, mailing list, notification and ad banners. The moment you finish "installing" the website you will get your content and you probably wont come back unless once again you are not redirected from reddit or something. You also don't get to see what this website is all about before actually going through the trouble of installing it.

On the other hand, Apps need to sell themselves to you. They need to be good towards their users so that they receive stars and positive reviews. They need to have a presentation explaining what this app is all about and even provide you with screenshots. Once you install an app, you are giving it a proper chance to impress you so that you keep coming back.

And that difference between Apps and Websites is the prime reason for the quality difference. Websites need to be clickbitey and they need extract the value out of you right away. The competition is firece as the entry barrier is low. Apps on the other hand need to be good and make their users happy so that they can convince others to install the app too. Since they are going to be within the site of their user, they don't need to extract the value right away, they can build healthy relationship.

And that's why the apps are much better.
This is actually completely incorrect. Slavery has and always will be profitable and it is still something being experienced by millions of people today.

>Cleaning houses, mowing lawns, sure. But you wouldn't even get as far as a taxi/truck driver

Again I see how one might expect this to be true but it isn't.

some industries where slavery is widespread:

- Sex work
- ocean fishing
- mining

I'm sure there are others
You go it!
A good way to keep track of new videos on your YouTube channels without being logged in is RSS.
> you.com/apps and let users vote

what is stopping companies/users from abusing/gaming on this system with bots?
The fact that it was written in Rust (or any other non-VM lang) is meaningful because programs written in a Language that needs a VM (All the GC'd languages for example) need the vm to be shipped as well. Thus, making the WASM-program larger and slower.
If you follow what those industrial pioneers were up to, you will find them at least at litigious as people are today. They certainly protected their patents and inventions with teeth and claws
deGoogling is great, but I don't want any corporations to track me or have data about me, and unfortunately the alternatives to Google are usually not any better in this respect.

They might, like DDG, promise not to track me and to respect my privacy, but as an ordinary user I have absolutely no way of verifying their claims.

I don't trust Vimeo any more than YouTube. I don't trust Authy any more than Google Authenticator. FastMail is great, but I don't want it to have my email any more than Gmail. I don't trust Firefox any more than Chromium.

Unfortunately the internet and computers in general were never designed to respect privacy and most corporations are happy to collect data on their users... and I'm pretty pessimistic on this changing much for the typical user... If anything it's only going to get worse as tracking technology becomes ever more sophisticated and omnipresent.

That's not to say we shouldn't deGoogle. But we should be under no illusion that that alone will somehow magically make our online lives private.
That's kind of an underrated aspect of these comparisons - while you absolutely can work around Javascript's weird performance cliffs and avoid putting pressure on the garbage collector, you have to fight the language at every turn because so many idiomatic JS patterns are inherently slow or flood the GC. You may find idiomatic JS easier to work with than something like Rust, but Rust is much easier to work with than the narrow and loosely defined subset of JS that you have to stick to for optimal performance. Taken to its limit you end up more or less writing asmjs by hand.
Because "we" aren't the CIA. Perhaps it's "they" as in. Are they the enemy of the people just like the KGB or GRU?
Serde is a common term meaning "serialization/deserialization," seems pretty descript to me.
I've always stored my cordless tools with the batteries disconnected from the tools and I don't have a fancy way of storing either (yet). I believe most cordless tool instruction manuals recommend this.
Google Push alternatives: Best open source apps for your Android
How to sleep like a 7 year-old
Agreed. Definitely makes you wonder about the fairness of intellectual property.