skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mullvad, http://mullvad.net/, accepts bitcoin and monero, which are currently uncensorable payment mechanisms, especially monero because it's base chain is truly anonymous.

Of course, if you're in a state that's already started censoring information as Russia has, they also start censoring on-ramps to crypto, as Russia has begun, https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/07/15/vladimir-putin-ba...

Owning monero and bitcoin in self custody is a "rather have it and not need it than need it and not have it" kind of thing. If you wait until you need it, it's too late.
Dang it, not even close.
This. Since I’ve already googled up a link: https://www.today.com/popculture/how-mister-rogers-pool-mome...
I often see revenge as "you hurt me, I think you're not hurt, I want you to also hurt."

I think we 1) assume the other is not hurting, which is very often false, as the other person may hurt us because they feel hurt and assume we aren't hurting and 2) instead of trying to make them feel hurt, we can tell them that we're hurting. However, I think we mostly don't do that strategy because it often requires us to cry and most cultures shun crying.

So we seem to end up feeling hut, hiding that hurt, and assuming the other doesn't feel hurt, probably because they're so good at hiding it.
I'm actually fine with basically any OS, I've used them all over the years to various degrees. But MacOS was always the one where I felt I was working with one hand tied behind my back, with various things I use all the time (extended keyboard with separate Del/Backspace, right mouse button/ scroll wheel, many software tools, ability to poke around "under the cover" etc.) either outright missing or compromised on MacOS/Apple hardware. Though it's Apple's whole approach to forced software upgrades that annoys me the most. The battery life is good though.
It's a loss of opportunity cost that reveals how much people actually care about the environment.

Want to sacrifice a bit of taste and save the environment? Yes!

Want to sacrifice the taste of meat to save the environment? Nah.
No. Fukushima is a price I'd gladly pay and I expect every reasonable person to agree.

The alternative isn't "no Fukushima", the alternative is hundreds of thousands deaths per year by burning coal. It's just not "one huge bang" so people don't realize it, because understanding abstract dangers is hard.
I know it's almost always taboo whenever I bring it up, but in recent years I've become convinced that a moderate level of retaliatory violence could lead to a better society.

There seems to no longer be any negative consequences for many minor antisocial acts (types of bullying, shoplifting in some parts, even reckless driving/endangerment). It's impossible in practice to legislate being an asshole, so until recently we relied on group shaming or the thread of a minor beating from someone wronged to keep this sort of behaviour in check.

Because of past cruelties, we've determined that all amount of verbal and psychological abuse is milder that a single slap, and I'm honestly wondering if we're leaving too many usable options to better society on the table.

That, combined with shaming and some amount of indoctrination of morals and ethics in our youth seem to have been abandoned completely, instead of being mostly toned down.
I have a russian friend living near Moscow, and he can fully use discord, chat to whoever he wants, view any region free video on youtube (be it extremely anti-Putin or anti-russian) etc. etc. without any effort on his part, just using normal programs, no tor or vpn. It seems that there are just so many avenues for information on the net, anyone in Russia who cares to know about something can find out immediately with minimum effort and zero technical knowhow.

It's just the majority of Russians dont want to know anything. Just like US citizens during the invasion of Iraq, most of them barely knew what was happening and simply didnt care to know. They were just comfortable in their assurance that USA was #1.
It doesn’t add up to me. Raising prices to account for shoplifters punishes poor people the hardest and reduces social mobility; poor people cannot save. Less social mobility makes it so that only people coming from privileged backgrounds control the destiny of poor people, thus never really fixing any issue.
FBI confirms Zodiac Killer's 340 cipher solved by trio of amateurs[2020]
Wow, you've tried 'em all!

This is awesome. Instead of listening to some "expert" tell you what to do, just try it yourself. Like I said: I know I can taste bamboo vs. paper filters, so I don't need to care if other people can.
>You're terrified of a nuclear meltdown, so instead you subject global civilization to decades of unnecessary fossil fuel burning.

It's kind of fair enough to be afraid with a chances of meltdown projected at 1/3704 reactor years:

https://lemielleux.com/what-are-the-chances-of-a-nuclear-pow...

Those odds are why not a single insurance company will insure a nuclear reactor for more than 0.3% the cost of a nuclear disaster.

Speaking of fallacies, your argument squarely falls under the false dilemma fallacy. Nuclear is not the only form of green energy. In fact it is by far the most expensive one as well as the only one that imparts a small chance of catastrophe.

It isnt needed to provide reliable power either. Wind, solar, pumped storage, batteries and demand shaping can, together, do it cheaper:

https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3539703-no-mi...

https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-finds-530000-potent...
Improving Accessibility with Design Tokens
What's interesting is that these are actually getting used for solar and wind projects today for mostly the same reason (connection to the grid that exists; new transmission takes years to come online if it ever does)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/15/climate/coal-plants-renew...
It is a different story if they asked in good faith, but they clearly started their initial comment as a derisive declaration of something being useless, so it sounded to me that they had no real intention of actually learning.
I don't really need it now with :packadd[!] and the pack/ */{start,opt} directories, which do a similar job.
oh yes that's the keyword, I tried googling for an hour but didn't come across that. thanks, but those ones are really big, I'm sure they'd go really well with an external keyboard for the desktop, but I was hoping to find something smaller, like one of those thin, foldable, flexible keyboards and just attach it on my laptop:

https://www.amazon.com/Foldable-Silicone-Keyboard-Waterproof...
Hex editors are a seriously undervalued learning tool. As a kid, I loved opening up the game files of stuff I was playing and see what I could tweak.

I’m not sure this particular editor could replace HxD for me - I’m not seeing process memory editing in its list of features. I’m glad to see the space is still getting love though.
The problem with all these costs is that we only get to know the real costs in hindsight.

With oil and gas, the hidden cost was climate change. Although global climate change was imagined as early as 1896 by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius [1], it was not publicly acknowledged by the "7 Sisters" [2] until April 2014 [3]. We think we know what oil and gas costs with what we pay at the pump, but those costs usually miss the $500 billion in direct subsidies [4], the military costs of protecting those interests and of course the costs of neutralizing climate change.

With nuclear, the hidden cost is both long-term storage of waste and the cost of nuclear accidents. The merchants of nuclear power plants do not list those costs on the sale price. Again we get the sticker shock once it is too big to fail. I still have not met anyone who is prepared to have nuclear waste stored in their "neighborhood" for the next thousands of years. So it accumulates on-site, where there was no real planned long-term storage accommodation.

I'm not arguing for or against one form of energy. Rather I am arguing for more transparency in our presentation of the costs.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/humans-first-warned-about-climat...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Sisters_(oil_companies)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiCvGQnweAg
Makes sense. Tor is too umm specialised and obscure. Although in brave you can simply open a private tab with Tor
But stealing $10,000 worth of product from your local corner store is worse than embezzling $10,000 from a megacorp. And aren't most of these thieves using their ill-gotten gains to pay for drugs, not rent or groceries?
That seems pretty reasonable as one valid data point, but unlikely to capture dangerous driving broadly and accurately, no? Certainly location and traffic and speed matter, and jerk might not tell you much about people who drink or drive tired; certainly a large percentage of accidents happen without sufficient deceleration prior to collision. I could be wrong though, maybe the accelerometer data over time is reliable at identifying bad drivers, it’d be interesting to see how well it does.

My kids use the insurance company apps and they are pretty awful in terms of accuracy. The apps nit pick the turning and braking based on acceleration data, and I’ve ridden with them and watched it call out safe driving as bad. One downside of this is that neither my kids or my wife and I trust the insurance company app to understand safe acceleration. I’m a little bit worried about what happens to this data and to the insurance company’s conclusions about what stops and turns were safe or not. It would be bad IMO if this record follows people around informing law enforcement using poorly decided thresholds for safety. The crappy app, of course, does not mean that the insurance company can’t reliably identify dangerous drivers, but there’s no indication to me that they’re using the data in a way I’d want or agree with... even if I’m completely on board with your suggestion to identify dangerous driving and charge for it.
I wanted to hear more about the “is there a demand for this?” part, as choosing a suitable niche is one of the most important tasks before starting any kind of online venture.

Finding a middle ground between “what do I want to do” with “what people want” and “which specific niche still has some space available” is a tricky task.

One simply shouldn't even think about doing any real product work without pondering about and validating this choice, as a bad one can pretty much invalidate all the solid work done afterwards.
Yes, they exist, they're illegal, and the legal consequences don't actually stop them.

If the argument is that everyone would road rage and drive dangerously if there weren't legal consequences, I dispute that. Many people don't do it simply because they don't feel like doing it.
Just want to add that I eat mostly vegetarian/vegan and bouldering at v4 level. Also very easily gaining muscle and not thinking too much about my diet. Just paid for every possible blood test that my doctor could provide and everything was in healthy ranges.
Truth is… taking a b12 vitamin a few times per week and having some vegan protein shakes a few times per week is super easy.
Truth is… there a lot of vegans that just don’t have super basic knowledge about the diet. But it’s actually super easy to figure it out if you put in maybe 1-2 days of research.

Also, something like one third of all Americans have low-normal b12 levels. A lot more people should be supplementing in general.
Of course I have considered similar allowances for Rc (this has nothing to do with stack allocation by the way, I'm hoping this is not a misunderstanding on your part). I referenced RC Immix throughout the post. It is extremely clear that the author of the article did not consider such allowances because they do not see that there is a problem. Even if the author had done so, there is a big difference between saying "whatever, I could do that same thing for Rc!" and actually doing it--a hugely nontrivial one that has not been fully bridged until quite recently. These kinds of techniques are still not used in production languages with reference counting garbage collection, including Swift.
So that it can be conveniently shared. I know "it's not supposed to be shared". Right? But that's policy, if a judge says "make it so" they'd have to. Right?
Half of the population is doing it with less than that, so I guess the answer is yes.

Also: salaries are per capita, two people with kids on average earn 2x that.

Most of Italy is not big costly cities, but small towns where prices are much more affordable.

You can rent a 100 square meters house in Taranto centre (quite large city in Apulia) for about 500-600 euros/month.

You can eat out in a restaurant and have a full meal for 20 euros.

Of course they are not getting rich.

Of course there are people who literally cannot live on their income and we should do more about it, like raising wages, for example, when possible.

Reminder: after taxes, which means free healthcare and free schools.

Taxes are paid by the employer as part of the salary.
Yuval Noah Harari: The Actual Cost of Preventing Climate Breakdown
Wonderful to see SBCL getting frequent releases! Looks like they are on a monthly cadence.
> I think a lot of people are frogs in a pot with regards to their city deteriorating

Boiling the frog is more than a little ridiculous when you consider that I was replying to someone who'd claimed gangs have barricaded whole blocks of San Francisco and that this is why the city's lost its humanity.

As for Portland, it too has been dirty and grimy since forever. I think a lot of the Portlandia crowd forget how industrial and rough (and how tolerant of neo nazis) it used to be. To be fair that cult (and the perpetrator of the largest bioterror attack on US soil) wasn't in Multnomah County.

https://www.oregonlive.com/history/2017/06/portland_in_the_1...
Perhaps another valid question is: should I bother about it?
That's what Japan just did https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a40221162/ja...

Edit: I misread your comment, but the Japan turbine is still cool :)
Luckily the Supreme Court is going to hear a case[0] that may give state legislatures carte blanche powers over elections, so if elections don't produce the "correct" results (despite being "designed" to guarntee them) they can simply be overridden. There's no reason to replace voting when votes don't actually matter.

[0]https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1107648753/supreme-court-nort...
popular culture plays into it alot.

there are somethings that are illegal that the public, and enforcement simply ignore most of the time. there are other things that are legal but apalling to the public when they encounter them.

i think this distills to a threshold for surveillance.
there needs to be some discriminator between casual observation, and active surviellance.

there seems to be a need to revisit just what a warrant is, and why it is required. i really would like to see a warrant apply to any means of collection, as in the warrant is allowing posession of the data itself, regardless of the origin as a court appointed priviledge for the term of the investigation, -regardless of origin
Tor is free too, and it is distributed enough that a single node won't rat you out to your local gov.

Even if you are setting up your own VPN, I recommend installing your own tor infrastructure instead. It is simply stronger than a VPN.
Are haakh, lotus root, kohlrabi (sorry forgot words for the last two) still considered poor people food?
There are still plenty of poor people who can't afford meat in every meal, even in rich countries. And even with mass meat consumption there is still further delineation like grades of meat that is plenty for rich consumers to differentiate themselves from (most people certainly cannot afford to cook Kobe/Wagyu with every meal)
The beauty of a lot of Western societies is that you have an individual voice and you are free to be as stupid as you want.

In most of the Eastern societies you don’t really have an individual voice. They have “cancel culture” embedded as a feature and not a bug. You wouldn’t dare speak against whatever norm is at the time.
Yes, eventually, and we will need programs for people in their 40s+ who have been cared for by their now deceased families. I suspect you're going to need hot pockets, video games, cots, showers, and they'll do ok. Maybe by then they'll be happy they're in a community together because they've been community deprived their entire lives. Who knows, this is a new problem.

But if you force them to "sink or swim" now, you're going to have a raging generation of 20-somethings with nothing to lose and contempt for the society and families that abandoned them. Also, did you notice the planet is literally burning?

For personal reasons, I'd like to keep society going a little longer. If we could not start a Joker breeding program, that'd be great.
There are both aspects in commercial perfumery, which makes it a pretty interesting industry. It’s true that there’s a definite laboratory slant when a fragrance needs to be validated and modified to meet regulatory standards for sale (which vary widely by region), and of course during mass production, but many big labels still tap independent perfumers who often work in pretty simple, bohemian digs, where a digital scale is about the most advanced gear in use. And there are legitimately thousands of independent perfumeries producing commercial fragrances at relatively small scale.

Many perfumers are trained chemists, but it’s definitely not a prerequisite.
This library doesn't wrap the AWS SDK, explicitly calls out existing Clojure wrappers that do in the README, and none of his commits seem to conflict with the referenced Tweet. Am I missing something?
~2% of global GDP to neutralize climate change?
There is a command to run locally, `babel`. It works in the command line as well as part of a build tool. It seemed me that the parent however didn't want to spend more time learning all that if they needed to convert just one file.
I’m typing German on a US keyboard layout and I’m very used to the alt +u-u chord etc to write the Inlauts. I still don’t have a setup on Linux though because I’m used to type this sequence with the left Alt key not the right.
The blog post mentions Elixir and while Elixir has its own mini-Rails with a lot less opinions, you'll still run into the same problems as Clojure around things like wanting a Stripe supported library, or PayPal, or Braintree, or Paddle or a ton of other popular 3rd party SAAS SDKs that exist in Ruby, Python, Node, PHP, Go, etc..

It's one of the reasons I stopped using Elixir. When I reached out to Stripe (and other 3rd party tools) they said the demand wasn't there to justify the dev time to maintain an official library internally. I think this is the reality to expect when using a more niche language. That may be ok if you're ok with that but it's important to know that's what you're getting into when you choose languages like this. It's a personal preference.
Maybe not everyone. But probably sizable proportion of road users would. And I think that is the point. Punishment is effective tool for stopping at least sizable fraction of them.
I wonder if it'd be better to posit that the 'team' sued the KKK because almost everything I know about this guy would lead me to believe he wasn't even likely to attack his aggressors, even if it was reasonable to do so.

FYI check out this 1969 congressional hearing [1], especially as compared to hearings today.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5PMPIdG_Y
What natural disaster could quickly drain a "lake" lined with stainless steel? All that water needs somewhere to go.

I assume a straightforward geological study would prevent events like https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/22/man-dies-after...
you could try 'stream decks' on amazon - basically a box of buttons that are keyboard macros. Made for youtubers and live streamers so they can not have to talk and type complex commands at the same time.

Xah Lee's site:

http://xahlee.info/kbd/programable_keyboards_with_onboard_me...

probably covers every alternative input device there is. Poke around, there is a lot of interesting content there.
that looks very interesting, kind of like keyboard.io and if I had a desktop setup I'd definitely try it out, for now I can just dream of having a laptop with such a keyboard
to be clear : the events of 9/11 were the impetus for war; not the motivation.

that trillion estimate, one of the lower ones by the way, is a cost figure without the associated profits and revenue. As horrible as it is and was, the 'military industrial complex', as a whole, profited incredibly -- this 'trickled down', a phrase I hate to use , all across the United States in the form of jobs from market players and call-for-bids across the nation to fill in niche topics (like airport security, for example) that were otherwise un-worked beforehand.

Another aside : the proof that airport security has changed anything for the better is scant at best, and corrupt at worst.

tl;dr : if you think any of the wars in the middle east were fought for the sake of 'American Safety', whatever that might be, then you're just not paying enough attention.
>from scratch

You do realize that this is already a red flag, right? In 99% cases the decision to start from scratch when you already have something well established is a mistake.
A bit odd, but I love the Redis docs. The list of commands, going through each of them and reading the implementation details and possible use cases.

I am not as up to speed since the RedisLabs sponsorship, but Redis as a whole used to feel like a very pure expression of lost programming ethos. Small, complete, not a gazillion dependencies and frameworks needed. Just well written software, well documented with none of the marketing rubbish (why is everything "Blazingly Fast") and services upsell with other tools.
Perhaps in US but in Brazil it is common use to write kkk to laugh
Somehow Microsoft have managed to have a different product team rebrand Defender
I think grandparent is talking about wealthy aristocrats who decide they don't want to interact with society/anyone. Pre-pizza-delivery, one would have had to be incredibly wealthy to manage to pull this off -- or be a penniless hermit, yeah.

The reason I replied, however, was the use of the phrase "hermits were aristocratic?", because it brought to mind the fad of the ornamental hermit, kept as a positional good on estates of the rich. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit
I think the thing people most struggle with in Clojure is that it looks like it should be an incredibly pure, deeply opinionated language but it’s actually extremely pragmatic. There is never going to be a long lived, vertically integrated, do everything framework for Clojure. If it was going to happen it would have already. Rails took off because burnt out enterprise Java developers wanted to quit and have fun again. Clojure happened because enterprise Java developers wanted to do enterprise Java better.
Honestly, maybe spending a day at stocks on public square might be effective tool. And probably relatively cheap punishment.

We could even stream it online. Show advertisements and have it pay itself.
Right, the question is: does all the data about where you've been get used anywhere, with PII attached? Could the police subpoena it?
A workplace requires different motivations, skills, expectations, and goals from those of a friend group. The qualities that make for a good worker in a tech company aren't necessarily going to make for a good fit as a friend.
This thing could power a small town, it doesn’t need to fit in your lawn.

Micro grids with multiple redundancies make the size perfect for a community project.