skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah - 10+ years ago I saved the routing/account number off my last check in my bank provided checkbook into my password manager. Whenever I need to pay via ACH for anything I just copy and paste those numbers - works fine.
This is an extremely good article. The hard part of this is everyone can agree that "legality is not morality" and that what is legal is not necessarily moral. But this is used for the wrong side of the argument - since the Bill of Rights is a legal document, some disregard it as any guidance for morality.
"The political left is supposed to be very sex-positive"

That is not my impression at all. See all the attempts to formalize consent in a way that does not really square with human sexuality. Consent apps? Wtf.

Not to mention all the attempts to criminalize buying of sex, which is basically an ultraconservative position multiplied by -1.
These are the kind of reactionary political talking points that I'd hear on Joe Rogan. The author makes all kinds of accusations that seem unfairly characteristic of actual events and provides no references.

Just to pull out a two quick examples here: "people can become so radically blind [by pandemic government recommendations] and continued to buy into a narrative so utterly absurd" and "It went so far that, at one point, they counted all deaths as corona deaths, including people who had died of, say, heart attacks."

These both seem way misrepresented. The first quote makes a statement that only what I assume he means the basic health mandates (like masks) and the few brief lockdowns during the height of the covid deaths where "so utterly absurd" to be believed in. What?

The second quote I can only assume he's talking about counties counting heart attack rates above the average that ALSO had covid. These are the numbers I've seen coming out of countries since nearly the start of the pandemic. I have healthy friends in their 30s hospitalized and nearly pass from Covid... it's more than reasonable to count comorbidities here when they are above averages.

What bothers me the most is the attitude that "mass formation" is innately something sinister. If there's a fire in the building and leaders told everything to go (isolate) outside where it's safe... is that also an example of Orwell’s pigs controlling the masses for self serving measures? I'll add that Orwell was indeed against Totalitarianism, but he was absolutely pro mass collective action and socialism.
https://thewire.in/books/remembering-george-orwell-the-socia...

Sometimes I wonder if modern neo-totalitarians are the ones directly engaged in undermining our health/science institutions to enact good [perhaps not perfect] collective action in order to make a case that only an "uncorrupted strong leader" can take charge during chaotic times.
Given his behavior over the past few years, i'd rather have two baskets with two sets of eggs.
View Sirius, the Brightest Star in the Night Sky
You don’t. Just accept it. A very few selected group of people do. Most don’t.
I feel like if the Nix developers stopped calling everything Nix + x then it'd be significantly less confusing.
An interesting question, shows how insanely overpriced GPUs still are, specially in the cloud environment
The implication is that Chinese policy considers both incest and LGBTQ as abnormal relationships.
I had it happen to me once - somebody washed my check (i.e. removed the original sum and payee and replaced it with larger sum and different payee) and tried to cash it. The bank called me, because the check looked weird, I said "huh? never heard of those" and they refused to cash. Unfortunately, the fraudster promptly run away from the bank - or so they told me - so that's where the thing ended.
I religiously refresh HN the last few months and I've seen exactly zero "fanboy" Rust articles. All of them outline what was gained by a switch to it and what problems were eliminated. The better ones also list tradeoffs i.e. they say what got a bit harder, too.

Maybe you just have an axe to grind?
https://archive.ph/LfYaU
It is always preferable to support high tech industry which can move whole country forward instead of few bricklayers, which won't move country forward.
Yep. 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 12 hours. To the Sumerian mind that was apparently as nice and round as 100 seconds, 100 minutes, 20 hours.

60 is the smallest composite number with three prime factors, and divides evenly by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30. Decimal only divides by 2 and 5. Makes arithmetic by hand a lot easier. Duodecimal has a similar advantage.
> so I don't really get why they offer it.

For a long time, their failure rates were pretty high, i don't know if that's still true. The rock solid support made them competitive for big institutional buyers etc. Comparison then wasn't an apple but a thinkbook, which were way more robust.
Hence 1984's CrimeThink
People have a right to privacy. Your business doesn't have a right to profit. It's that simple.

If following the requirements of society makes your business unprofitable, too bad, having a business is optional, following the requirements of society is not.
It's worth noting, the last time there was this much CO2 in the atmosphere (>400ppm), sea levels were significantly higher. Estimates are all over the map, but most of them put global sea at least 10m above our current levels.

A few sources:

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/carbon-dioxide-now-more-th...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1543-2?proof=t

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1233137

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2012.029...

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...

EDIT: Fix words.
It works quite well when your hostname is private / not well known.
So you want icons to be able to overlap each other, or be different distances from each other, or what? I'm trying to figure out what exactly you're trying to accomplish. What would be the benefit of totally arbitrary, down-to-the-pixel placement ability?
I think the complaint is (usually) a bit more nuanced than that. I, for example, am totally encouraging of SX to take over all earth orbital works, as well as the moon. NASA is wasting its time and our money in those areas. However, I think it’s a waste for anyone, SpaceX or NASA, to send people anyplace outside of the moon. (And even putting people on the moon again is of questionable value.) NASA should stick to what it does best: Remote robots and instruments.
To be truly nostalgic they would have to take longer to load, and slow down my whole computer. If I trusted the page enough to enable javascript, which was so rare to begin with in the 90s. Heck, I rarely enabled images until at least 2000 when I got a cable modem.

That said, this is fun and impressive. I wouldn't even know where to start with something like this, I just bookmarked with the intention of reading through the code later but I probably never will.
It's not interesting. You know exactly why it would be absurd for everyday Americans to be able to have access to things like nuclear weapon launch codes or schematics, or be able to post the location of CIA operatives on Tik Tok, or know the exact locations and deployment schedule for military forces, or where the president would be at any given hour, or... any number of things. If you take your line of reasoning/questioning here to its conclusion you'd also wonder why can't an American walk on to an airfield and fly a Blackhawk away? What's so absurd about people using the things their tax dollars pay for? To deny that scenario is to admit that the government has the ability to keep things away from citizens, and you can clearly see how this extends to military or national security secrets as well.

Framing this as "what's so wrong with the lil ole' people knowing a few things the government is hiding" is disingenuous at best. And if you wanted to make a concrete argument about "no secrets" you would make an attempt to do so abstracted away from the current geopolitical reality of the world because it's extremely obvious why this not only wouldn't ever occur but also shouldn't occur in the reality that we experience today. Idealism is only useful to the extent that it is also pragmatic. A better principle here would be something like maximizing the amount of information that American citizens have access to (why limit it to Americans and America though? Why can't I have access to all Chinese documents?) excluding national defense capabilities or some realistic parameter/line.
Bingo. This is something the cryptocurrency extremists just willfully refuse to acknowledge. It turns out that transaction reversibility and the ability (and willingness) of law enforcement to get involved are extremely useful tools in most commerce scenarios.
According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32641527, 12 is substantially more accurate than 31. 41 is slightly more accurate, and 53 is a lot more accurate.
> Would you mind sharing some things that juniors have forced that you think are bad?

Nested ternary operators... though, because of how TypeScript does constants, I saw why they used this way of doing things so often.
From my understanding he autoblocks anyone who likes a tweet that pushes back on his political takes.
I agree except a forum is a different medium from Slack DMs. This is an ongoing exchange of specific, topical sorts of information. It's much closer to a Slack channel than to DMs.

DMs are a personal, often interruptive direct request for a particular person's attention and time. Some sort of interpersonal acknowledgement and appreciation of the other person's effort and time is pretty common in polite society.
> I miss the days when I could plan ahead for new versions, so I could time them to have the least possible disruption to my life.

That's one of the many advantages of desktop apps: unless it's a bad player that forces the update down your throat, it is you who control if and when to upgrade, not the vendor, who may or may not have their interests aligned with yours.

(It's a bit similar on the mobile if you disable automatics updates, provided that you can ignore that obnoxious red dot forever.)
Machine Zone Co-Founder Gabe Leydon Raises $200M for New Blockchain Game Studio
The "Ghost" effect brought back strong memories of passive LCD screens circa ~1996.
Tell that to the whales.

Prior to 1700 there were estimated over 350,000 blue whales in the world's oceans. Now, only an estimated 25,000 remain.

Human-caused complete extinction is very common, particularly for megafauna. E.g. giant sloths in North America and most large animals in Australia went extinct within centuries or millenia of human settlement.
So now everyone can update their phones on the day of a new Android release?
They say the Starbucks era of coffee brought on the 3rd wave of coffee. Then there was a 4th wave, and now a 5th wave with technology to make efficient and fast coffee with enough quality to drink everyday.
Appears to firmly contradict this:
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/youll-never-guess-avera...

Makes me wonder if news agency workers just pull stuff out of their behinds.
This is pretty fabulous news, Garry. You've been an inspiration, from meeting you back in the Posterous days during Summer '08 and seeing your contributions and achievements along the way since then. Bravo!
I have heard that if you criticize the US military in your film then they won’t let you borrow tanks and other resources for it. If your film glorifies the US military then they will happily give you tons of resources for your movie, up to and including piles of money.

This is not outright government censorship - you can still make a picture that says “the US military sucks” - but it certainly has an effect on big-budget films that want every dollar they can get.
> The former was critical of the military in a way that could not happen in any big blockbuster movie.

It most certainly "could" be made as there is nothing preventing a studio from doing so if they wanted to. It may not be commercially viable and thus it would not get green-lit by a studio but that's a world away from the government explicitly forbidding it.
Reverse-engineering from the missing data to an underlying philosophy is a very clever use of the data.

I wonder if there are any seasonal discontinuities? Those could indicate anything from a cultural shift in the censors to actual individual censors retiring and getting replaced, since so much of censorship is very subjective.
For some things that might be true.

But when the indoctrination collides with reality in a harmful way, it's a different matter. Objectively, it is true that gay people exists and that there is no good reason to restrict their rights.
Please just post an link to a non-paywall mirror, a link to the paywall article is useless to most people.
I have found nginx bad bot blocker [1] very handy for this. I have it setup to respond with 444 and it allows me to add my own rules very easily.

https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blo...
> Rapid release means I can no longer rely on the software that engages in it. It's constantly shifting, with frequent changes in UI and workflow, and new and exciting bugs constantly appearing.

There’s something terribly wrong in the picture you’ve described. I do not know what Agile stands for, but our company was doing “a new version each Friday” for like 15 years. One of the axioms of such a fast turnout was “a new version should work in the old environment exactly the same as the old version” - except bug fixes of cause, some of which were made optional nevertheless.
Haha, I never thought ANYONE would read my post nor did I thought that one of GH app creators would. That's why I was explicit with my projects what I am talking about. So maybe I give my 2 cents to your comment.

First of all, I think you're still a bit out of competition, because FHA and GHS are really clones of the old GHH. So it's like the chess app has gone, we create two chess app clones and you do 3d-chess app. So in that case my comparison about features is really about covering the original app and not about new features I added. So first disclaimer, but you already know that: I really appreciate the work of the other app devs. I wouldn't be able to support all the editions, if I couldn't scrape all the data from FHA. And I am never ever jealous, if people prefer one app over another. In this particular case, it's really about the Reddit visibility (and GH community there): An update from my side gain ~30 upvotes, FHA ~180 in half of the time. Because of that there are also more comments and many comments like: "I still use the old app, would like to switch if you have feature XY (from the old app)" and they seem to just not heard about any other app exists and already support that feature. To go the chess metaphor, I am talking about people used to play the normal chess, they used to it. Your 3d-chess might be a good replacement too, but it's just not the same. And then they asking when the knight will be implemented so they can switch (I totally exaggerate here, don't want to boil down the good and hard work of FHA!), I am just looking and thinking, the knight is working like month ago, my last update was about multiplayer. But again, I am not jealous in that way, that I think they should please use my app, because I am better and so on. But due to Reddits sorting, they just haven't even heard about other app existing. And yeah, I don't want to play those social algorithms. GHS get mentioned enough and already a lot of people like it. But it was now the third time where I posted an update and 1-3 days later, FHA update is killing just everything regarding upvotes and feedback. And then I am jealous. That's all and I ranted a bit about that on the internet. Now it's there, and I felt memories about my other project, where I also tried to get some attention I was more jealous, because then the other projects gaining more attention were really out of scope and I couldn't even appreciate any of this.
I looked at 5 sources and could not verify this statement.

Do you have any that state this?
> the best investment is improving the development team's operational posture (e.g. run books, alarming, monitoring).

this is devops
The only part of the story that's true is that Hunter Biden was given money with the expectation that he'd have political influence over his father. There's zero evidence to show that happened.

Turnabout is fair play: are you willing to hear true bad things about the people you like?
First: The "Limits to Growth" language here is hyperbolic, and this report was commissioned by (and this PDF is hosted on the site of) a green materials/mining agency* GTK that has a "Circular Economy" project about material reuse. So this is clearly coming from a perspective of advocacy and economic interest.

Second: If you actually read the paper, they freely admit that this isn't about minerals "running out", but more that they're becoming harder to extract - especially regarding more money / energy / water.

The classic issue with this is that these models are highly sensitive to technological change, which is in turn driven by the economic realities involved. We've all seen what chips, PV panels, etc. when these all align.

To wit, note that while there is a long analysis of how current mining practice is getting harder, there is no discussion of the pace of innovation in mining tech and the trends by which it would be adopted.

An example of one tech that addresses their copper ore grade issue is biomining [1], which is using microorganisms to process the ore. This isn't widespread yet, but is in development because the industry already knows this is a problem.

The mining industry and commodities more broadly actually suffer from boom and bust cycles with respect to their CapEx invested and payback period - ie everyone frantically fracks for gas until the price goes through the floor and they all go bankrupt. So resource extraction is more about economic viability than technical constraints like the author suggests.

TL;DR: We're not in danger of long-term shortages of minerals, just shocks like we're having with oil, but these pose no danger to encountering any "limits to growth" anytime soon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomining

* Corrected from "company" from comment below.
Not much missed. It’s literally a waste of electrons pushed across wires and time i will never gain back.
I'm not as sure that artificial porn is undeniable progress.

While I am entirely pro liberty in terms of consumption of pornography, it is not a replacement for human interaction, and can be used in conjunction with other tools to dehumanize and isolate individuals. Some individuals that then make negative contributions to the rest of society at large. These are not isolated incidents, and they've been rising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogynist_terrorism

There are many kinds of porn - some that exploit women, some that empower them in their production. And there are also many kinds of products - ones that focus on a human connection (whether vanilla or kinky) and ones that don't.

I would absolutely worry that artificial porn would be good enough to meet some of these demands but not most, and would ultimately be a net negative for society.

> Moreover, sexuality is perhaps the most important theme in art, historically.

I mean, it's demonstrably not, religious art imagery dominates by volume. But that's also not necessarily important - that's just who happened to be patrons of arts and had the means to commission them.

I'm not gonna deny that humans are horny and want to make lots of sexy art.

But you're also not going to get porn on basic cable. You have to seek that out extra for yourself, and that's going to be the case with AI-generated porn art also.
This Register article has some more meat: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/01/column_7nm_chips_chin...
I think they were just busy with more prestigious and established contests at the time: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/DanNet-triggers-deep-CNN-re...
That's basically correct, though wire transfers aren't completely immutable, it's just _really_ hard to back them out.
A different visualization of the same data here, https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-...
- Agile
- DevOps
- Continuous integration
- Continuous deployment
- Rapid release
- Growth hacking, if you have 10+ employees, A/B testing, heatmaps.

I’ve been working alone for 12 years and all those concepts were already working in the last large corp I was in.

What trends am I missing by being disconnected from the employment market? Am I missing anything or do we still develop like it’s 2010? Is there no new process or evolution on the style of management of software? Is Agile the final form of product management?
It can in some contexts, but I've never seen a "release channels" approach for e.g. a configuration UI. I'm not sure if that's because it's fundamentally incompatible with business needs or it's just not something UX devs are aware of.
Same argument for simplifying the tax code or even completely abolishing the IRS in favor of collection infrastructures already in place (like sales tax) - but what will happen to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry?
I share DNA with blue-green algae and would hope I share a bit more with someone who looks like me.
Thank you for an enlightening and informative post.
For consumer accounts, it's 60 days.
Ahhh i see it now, 2 red lines with pluses. I was looking at 2015. That makes wayyy more sense.
Building a canal from that makes the Qattara Depression in Egypt a part of the Mediterranean would lower ocean levels by 4cm.

Seems worth doing just to bring life to the desert.
Google has become too large. As a result, they're a threat rather than a benefit to the web ecosystem.

We saw similar stuff when banks were getting bailed out because they were "too big to fail". That meant that their very size was a threat to the financial system - they were really too big to allow to exist.
> Human imagination can't create anything really novel. Everything you create is just cutting, stitching and deforming what you already seen in semi-random ways until you get something interesting to somebody.

That's an awfully low opinion of art and humanity.
also... "climate change will cool the planet by 10deg C" - Dinosaur Times, 15000000 B.C.

Leaving out a time frame is convenient. Everybody is right. Time frame determines who is right NOW.
Aside from the almost comically aggressive tone you've taken here, all you've brought to the table is a link to an image that claims to be of some value in comparing before/after grounding.

Said image has a weird and rather unprofessional font, no point of reference to any scientific data to back it up, and appears to be hosted on a storefront intended to sell you grounded running shoes.

Not sure that's how science works.
Thanks for the info. Why can't the driver be abstracted enough to allow a new OS install as long as the ABI of the driver doesn't change? Major Windows versions installed over the same drivers for years. I've never written a hardware driver, so I'm left to guess or speculate.