skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just lie when filling that form out. Nobody will do anything because if it got turned into a case that made it to the Supreme Court, it would most likely be the end of a large bit of that background check. A lot of that stuff has very questionable constitutionality.

And before the downvotes or flames… let’s be completely honest here. Anybody in a recreational state who owns a gun and filled out that forum lied. I mean technically you aren’t supposed to smoke pot in federal land like a national park or forest yet it happens all the time and nobody cares. Not all laws get enforced.
I think so many of these issues can be solved by going on road diets and dedicating an entire car lane to bikes.

Use the carrot and the stick to incentivize a healthier mode of transportation.
This is going to sound harsh, but it's coming from a place of astonishment.

To make up for buying your way into a region and contributing to the displacement of locals, you are offering to create an internet platform to solicit donations of other people's money to support a welfare economy.

It's an idea as absurd as Russia funding orphanages for Ukrainian children displaced by war, or patting yourself on the back for resuscitating someone you just tried to drown.

If you feel that guilty about it, leave. Charity from conquerors is not generosity, it is an imposed dependency-- literally the opposite.

Don't feel too bad though. This is the nation that pioneered the global slave trade; they've done far worse to the rest of the world in pursuit of a dollar.

Buying a house and paying above market rate for it is not a crime against humanity you should feel compelled to make amends for. You are already making a landlord and nearby service providers wealthier than they would be without you there. Count your blessings and live your life.
Terrestrial Amateur Radio Packet Network – Improved Layer 2 Protocol (2022)
Does anybody have any idea of how WhatsApp (or even Signal) deals with recycled cell phone numbers (In many countries, it is common for telecom companies to reuse and reissue a phone number to another new subscriber once someone surrenders it)? How does WhatsApp or Signal deal with phone numbers it has banned but has been re-issued to someone else who wants to use WhatsApp or Signal?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2379009/Barnaby-Jac...

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Oops - I didnt realize you were same poster from other comment
What's "artificial" about using planes to transport food instead of trucks?
Here’s a list of people who probably disagree:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lynching_victims_in_...

There might have been more tolerance for racism and sexism and stuff, but not more tolerance for everyone.
It's not. They're having a row over EU funds being cut off due to the fact that PiS screwed up the Polish justice system. Now they're upset about it and Kaczynski is asking for war reparations. It's just populist rhetoric, nothing more.
I think Covid reset the employer to employee relationship. Prior to that, the employer could demand allegiance to the company, enforce a code of behavior and expect the employee to give priority to the company's agenda and needs. That whole dynamic was ripe for change. I like the idea that the employee has more of a say.
This is a game where the only way to win is to not play, or to have rich parents.
Interesting, I did not know this. Fixed.
66.8% in the last USA presidential election. But even so, that still isn't enough. People would be amazed how much a difference it would make if everyone voted.
There is certainly some faulty reasoning in:

> I don’t like exceptions because they are, effectively, an invisible goto

This is supposes to invoke dread because everyone knows goto's are evil right? But if any jump to a different place in the code is a goto, then if/else/while are also goto's, and so are functions and returns.
Not according to GitHub, which — unless I'm mistaken — treats opened issues as contributions.
Have a mix of nerve pain and a number of kidney stones.

A bad kidney stone will leave you suicidal after awhile. Tramadol was only thing that go me through those.

Nerve pain is harder as it’s long term. Never as bad as a kidney stone. But it is it something you can live with indefinitely. Tramadol works. But then you get long term addiction. I would stop for a month every few months just to detox some.

Eventually I discovered LDN. Which got pain under control. Plus side you can’t take opioids.

Was a nightmare finding a doctor that would prescribe it though.
It's not one or the other. It's both.

Yes, we need to stop fossil fuels.

Yes, we need to clean up what we've dumped into the air.

Why is that so many see every problem as binary? When in fact it's not??
As a more general question, is there a resource available that shows which memory protection schemes are available on various OSes? It'd be nice to see what the state of the art is on Linux, macOS, the BSDs, etc. in one place.
This is explicitly political speech. Can the government ban it?

Mocking politicians and bureaucrats and calling their decisions into question is an absolute, inalienable right
I'm trying to figure out why I don't like Effective Altruists
"But not in our generation, the next one."

The familiar song of the NIMBY knows no borders. What an amazing statement. Younger people must be immiserated because older person has bills to pay. At least demographically speaking the young man in the video won't really need to wait 40 years to get an apartment above ground. Population of SK is believed to have peaked in 2020 and is now rapidly plunging, with total fertility now way below 1.0. They used to project peak population in 2035 but now they are projecting to lose 1 million by that year.

Edit: Sorry, the 1 million is according to the "medium" fertility projection but since reality is already far below the "low" scenario, the projection is for losing 3 million people by 2035.
Unsure why but when I read this I had Jimmy Car narrating the comment in my head. Not taking sides or voicing opinions. Best regards Joe Wilkinson
Ask HN: AI art and copyright/licensing laws?
I've been seeing a lot of amazing AI generated art posts recently on HN lately and I am starting to think about AI art in the legal sense.

Just today a user posted AI-Generated Bible Art [https://www.openbible.info/labs/ai-bible-art/] which is cool to look at, but this art was created from bible verses and machines. My understanding is that the bible is not protected under copyright law and "computer generated art" is also not protected under copyright.

Licensing might be another story, but the generated bible art has a CC-BY license. Is this possible? I mean couldn't anyone feed bible verses into DALL-E and get the exact same images?

I wonder how this will shape the future in a legal sense. Anyone have any ideas or views on the matter?
> The compromise was putting /nix on a separate directory.

Why does a separate directory need a whole other volume? These are just files, right? Why do they need to be on a separate volume?
I'm not really talking about just handing out more money to schools, nor debating whether schools received less funding. The school problem comes from both not valuing education and people who have had a rougher go at life that the problem keeps perpetuating in their children. (dad in jail, mom on drugs, mom working 2 jobs so has no time and the children just hang with other older children, etc.). Feel free to send your kid to that school if you think it's just as fair a shot at life.
Similarly to what another comment already mentioned I find it very odd to post a project and have zero information who's behind it. Especially if it's something where you would enter sensitive information and especially around payments. In cases like this I really like the law around having to have a proper imprint with business information available within one click that we have in Germany (EU?).

Is it just a landing page to gauge interest?
Why is this an interesting submission? A question and some relatively generic answers?
NATO is a defensive military alliance between North America and some European countries and BRICS are a collection of emerging economies that host an annual summit. They're not really comparable

Also three big players among the BRICS are sort of on opposite sides: Brazil has some ties to the US and India and China aren't exactly on the best of terms.
This seems like overkill, and unless it has a Shadowplay-like mode where you're persistently recording and can just dump the last few minutes to the hard drive, I don't think I'd even know (or remember) when to hit record. (So actually, maybe just use Shadowplay instead?)

One other alternative is Idea/Rider's Local History feature which is basically a parallel repo of your entire project that automatically saves a snapshot of your changes every time you save a file. Super useful for all kinds of backtracking, and you don't even need to remember to use it until you actually need it.
How the idea of a “transgender contagion” went viral–and caused untold harm
In the Silicon Valley area, at least, existing suburban neighborhoods that were built without air conditioning (because it didn't get hot) are regularly reaching 100-105F in the summer. The change in temperature happened will after these areas were developed.

Also, forests that are away from urban areas are dying off because of high temperatures and low humidity. Heat islands are rounding error in most parts of California.
Maybe you are right. I guess I will just build it with the purpose of showing something on my github rather than as a serious product.

But in this particular application it wouldn't work if too many people mess with the data.
I’m far away from a gun nut. I don’t see the need to carry and I am more worried about getting shot by the police because I both “fit the description” and “don’t look like I belong” in my own neighborhood than I am a criminal shooting me. But I very much believe in gun ownership in the home - especially properly secured.

If someone breaks into my home, they prima facie mean me harm. They will get shot without a second thought or ounce of remorse. What am I suppose to do? Wait on the police to show up?
Spousal hiring is another very under-rated recruiting tool, especially if you want to bring someone in from far away.

You don't even necessarily need to hire the partner directly; just help them find a job somewhere in the area.
Nah, I have chronic pain. Muscle stuff (back, hips). And arthritis.

They're insantly worse the moment I consume.

I know it's hard for those who enjoy cannabis to understand this. But for me it's a highly unpleasant drug. Maybe the most unpleasant of the various recreational substances I've taken over the year. For me it's pain and paranoia.

In the milieux I was in in my 20s it was constantly around, and wow, was I ever happier once I just stopped trying it.

When it became legal here I tried it again. Nope, still sucks.
Yes they have, just not very often and not without a long political fight and not without strong political leaders to push it forward.

Say what you want about the "system" and the two parties and so on, but we the people send our senators and reps to Congress, and the same is true at the state level. This type of thing would be best done at a state level to show people, particularly those in other states that it can work well.
Can you elaborate more on making pens with a lathe? I'm a total newb but have some ideas on what I want (steel pen with a knurled grip, for example). What am I looking at if I get into this?
Thank you! So I’m not completely crazy!
This is fugazi concocted by the financial industry to mislead the public. The devastation they wrought on the economy and the consequences for ordinary people weren't fully captured by those loans. For example: the Fed's aggressive quantitative easing policy that had been in effect for more than a decade post 08.
The msyscall() man page. The Cosmopolitan Libc source code. In the cosmoverse, we produce static executables that run on six operating systems. The only Libc we use is obviously our own. So when our executables get loaded on OpenBSD, we do the same thing OpenBSD Libc does, which is calling msyscall() so that only a privileged subset of the application is able to use SYSCALL. In our static binary world, that's basically any function that uses the `privileged` keyword. It makes things a little dicey if we want to dynamically link OpenBSD Libc since we have to pull out some aggressive hacks like Xed in that case. But overall it's fine.
Says they're heavier than equivalent ICE, so do more impact damage. Better batteries will mitigate this.
Do ads pop up and appear when you use Photopea?
It's not hardcoded, but you end can't take advantage of the binary caches if you change the directory. A company could certainly create their own binary cache and distribute that to it's users.
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The install process was simpler before recent OSX updates.

> I discovered it creates a new Unix group, adds a separate APFS volume, installs a daemon. This was too invasive for a tool I was unsure if I even wanted to use, so I uninstalled it.

Since you'd already installed it, wouldn't trying it in some capacity before uninstalling it have made sense?

> What is the reason for all this machinery

Enforcing reproducibility basically.

I don't know all but...

The daemon and APFS volume otherwise readonly /nix that only the daemon can write to can't be created.

The group is probably for the daemon to be able to write to /nix.

The path /nix is important because the remote binary cache paths will miss otherwise and you'll compile everything from source.

> I went with the recommended multi-user install, should I have just used the single user mode instead?

I'm guessing it would work in the way you want, but I always opt for the daemon.
Job skill is relative. I'm sure everyone's job would be considered "low skill" to some people.
Luckily for humanity that won’t actually be necessary.

In the next 20-30 years I suspect we’ll just moderate total solar irradiance as-needed by injecting moon dust into L1.

The only issue is if there are powerful countries that are actually benefiting from the warming and don’t want to cool it down bit.
Yes and no. What I want is buyers and reasonable fees.

I stopped putting stuff on Ebay due to ridiculous fee schedule ( listing is free, but then you get hit with tons of seemingly random invoice, which is automatically deducted without a real way to challenge it ) and I was regularly thinking of putting a store up myself, but I don't sell often enough to justify it. I once played with an idea of a weird garage sale app that basically let your address list what you have available for sale, but it seemed like a lot more work than I was willing to put forth.

This.. could work. I will admit I am tempted to try the self-hosted version.

edit: changed sellers to buyers
These researchers published their findings and your comment is just “that might not be true.”

Please, add some substance.
On Linux, users can put their Nix store in their home directory or other places and at run-time Nix remaps the directory using user namespaces. Unfortunately this isn't workable on macOS: the kernel doesn't support the features we need.

Using /nix and a separate group and daemon means the store can be read-only and be protected from modification in several ways. This is pretty helpful, as a lot of tools try very hard to write "next to" where they are installed -- corrupting the Nix store.

I sort of wonder if it would be more palatable if the Nix installer was a bit less in your face about what's going on? This would be similar to how Docker's works.
> If software engineering is such a cushy, desirable, lucrative job, why don't more people do it?

Lots of people are, and try, that's why bootcamps and Leetcode prep have been so big for the past decade. More and more people are joining, but also there's a lot of demand so jobs are unfilled.

(You're also completely failing to read when I said "that work isn't necessarily easier".)

My point is that a lot of people gravitate towards those hot industries, definitely more people than those going to lesser-paying industries in say semiconductor manufacturing, which is what TFA is about. My point is your comment about "attitudes exacerbating downward mobility" have nothing to do with why people don't want to work in semiconductor manufacturing.
Writing the packaging expressions should not be harder than writing the program, for the average developer. The average developer doesn't know FP, at this point. Nix needs:

1. Approachability for those not indoctrinated in lazy, declarative, functional programming (i.e. Haskell); nope, Nix Pills are not sufficient for the average dev

2. Editor tooling to help guide the writing of expressions (just as anyone learning C# or Rust can use LSP); a better type system for Nix would help here

3. Better documentation for practical things like "Using Nix to manage the dependencies and package a C++ program using Meson", rather than having people piece this together from a bunch of disparate docs

4. A much better CLI UX than `nix-env -qa` and the like (this is ongoing and experimental, but even that broke recently, causing lots of confusion; now it requires `nix --extra-experimental-features nix-command --extra-experimental-features flakes search nixpkgs`)

5. To seriously answer the question: is the Nix language required for the Nix packaging system to exist? Laziness is required, to some degree, but can the next iteration provide an on-ramp which doesn't involve learning a new lang and paradigm? Guix folks sure think so.

I feel like Nix folks have been focused so long on solving the tough problems of declarative, deterministic packaging that they haven't been able to focus on the UX. I also feel like folks for whom Haskell is comfortable may not realize just how absurd it feels to everyone else. Perhaps like the early days of Git.

I do really hope Nix succeeds in this, though; I've been using it, or it's been using me, for several years. [1] and [2] for more info.

[1]: https://blog.jeaye.com/2015/11/24/nixos/

[2]: https://blog.jeaye.com/2017/07/30/nixos-revisited/
Yes because your case has any likelihood of making it to the Supreme Court where you have an overzealous prosecutor and an overworked public defender.
Killing people is really the only way you can imagine of reducing demand? I find that hard to believe.

Drug addiction is a complex phenomenon. Why do people start, why do they get addicted, why do they choose one drug over another, why do they choose to quit, how hard is it to quit, are there resources that can help them?

Obviously there are dozens of possible interventions, short of murder.
Low density cities. Few places are like Chicago or New York.

The interstate highway system was actually for defense. Moving things from coast to coast was far to difficult.

FDR saw the German Highway system during the war and was rightfully jealous.
> Undoubtedly, as Markdown became more popular, someone else would have pointed out this problem. Gruber himself would have been annoyed by it if he ever needed to write a code block with backslashes in it. But I was there first. And you’re welcome.

I don't see how he's taking responsibility for fixing the bug. To me it just sounds like he's sharing an anecdote and this is not entirely serious.
Just wait to see the impact of psychedelics on pharma…
Germany might want some change from the land they ceded to Poland.
Funny how people only ever talk about those supposedly horrible unions instead of the nurses and teachers unions that made sure my mom could feed her kids or my family members are paid fairly for their hard work, often hard PHYSICAL LABOR in a supposed knowledge industry.
I agree with the preamble and the "our mission" stuff. I wish them success at bringing the benefits of nix to more users, but without it being limited to enthusiasts, and people who can afford to deal with rough edges.

The "external dependencies" thing shows how Nix can be a tough sell to those who don't click with it.

I'd say that the other solutions are:

- a README which has a bunch of "apt-get install" commands you can copy-paste from,

- a "setup.sh" script that installs things,

- a container or VM image with the toolchain setup,

- or a tool like asdf.

IMO, Nix is a much nicer solution than these other options, and has the benefits, avoids the downsides of these (but an entirely different set of downsides).
$500 million at least buys you 5 stars worth of cool CGI and gorgeous cinematography.
That's why I love them. I benefit from their obsession because they definitely know how to find the good shit.

I'm not a mechanical keyboard fanatic, but I browsed their forums and found an excellent, affordable, keyboard I would have never found otherwise. I just use it and get on with my life, not going down that rabbit hole, but I'm grateful for the ones who did and found this beautiful board that I really do enjoy using.

Same with wetshaving - they're a little obsessed, but I benefit from that because now I have an irritation-free shaving routine that I would have never found without them!
Only have 1 spine and it has to last me the rest of my life so I tried these out and they feel like they actually work. Didn't even break a sweat. Seemed worth sharing here.
Whenever I need to explain to laypeople what I do as a software designer, I tell them that most of my job is figuring out new ways to visualize and connect outlines and spreadsheets.
OSX requires mounting root folders like /nix with synthetic.conf IIRC.
Supposedly[1], Audacity 3.2.0 will be available as an M1 native app.

Guess we’ll see then :)

[1]: https://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=114242&s...
Personally I'm not saying "fuck it", but I have reached the point where I just won't go along with the bullshit anymore. I'm going to fight.
Also 1954-57.
In grade school, the German elementary school (long story) I went to insisted that all us 2nd and 3rd graders use fountain pens. Oh, the tragedies that ensued! The stained fingers, the spills on clothing, the blotches on homework. And nothing could be erased!

You'd think that would have traumatized me, but once all grown up, I never liked ball point pens. Mechanical pencils are nice, sometimes very nice, but today I have gravitated back to fountain pens. The writing is smooth and effortless and looks fantastic, in spite of my poor handwriting. I am no connoisseur of fine pens, nibs, or inks, but today I write my journal and sign my checks with a fountain pen.
Not to give it away, but another example is when Joel says that, to know whether dosomething() might throw an exception, you have to read all down through its call tree, you know you are off in the weeds. Obviously it might throw. Even if it doesn't today, it might tomorrow. So you don't need to guess or explore whether cleanup(), there, is wrong. You already know it's wrong. Cleanup code goes in destructors. Period. Destructors always run.

Other people posting here have noted that using our language's type system intelligently is how we make trouble fail to compile. Counting on our and our colleagues' finely-tuned sense of rightness to keep out bad code is a recipe for having Bad Code. It suffices to explain Microsoft.
>> a truly civil-liberties-only ACLU

Take a look at FIRE, https://www.thefire.org.
We did at the time not feel any heat radiating of it. In the living room there was a wall-to-wall carpet, and it left no scorch marks or anything burned. I also can not remember any paricular smell. The color of the ball was bright white, with hints of blue/green.
As a Brit, none of these come even remotely close to the pain of treading on an upturned plug.

Now you can take these plugs out of my cold, dead hands, I love those plugs with a frankly alarming passion, but $deity$ do they hurt to step on.

Tom Scott [1] has all the reasons why.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q