skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were deliberately torturing themselves to avoid saying "raise taxes."

What they seem to be saying, if I parsed it correctly:

"We now get to include tax breaks from the previous year as a factor in property value when taxing the elderly."

That seems awful. I kind of get the hyper-technicality they're going for, but it still seems like they're sticking it to seniors... again, if I understood it correctly.
The very first paper I turned in was typed on my mom's electric typewriter.

Later on, some teachers refused any papers printed by dot-matrix printers because of how bad they looked.
Which PDF readers do you recommend?
> it's not censorship when a private company does it on their own platform.

It's legal, but it's still censorship. And 'censorable' is about the ability to be censored, not necessarily current censorship. I do not think it benefits the people to have censorable networks because every tool eventually gets used.

We're better off with the phone company not being able to moderate our speech.

> But that's the point, it's only the extreme things that get banned.

Not at all. It's not the slightest bit extreme to say men shouldn't take spots in women's sports but it is censored on most platforms. They'll take your NYT (for example, but far from the only one) comments taken down if you say this, no matter how polite you are.

> You're worried about missing that "some politician took bribes or that a public policy isn't actually evidence based" but absolutely nobody is moderating those messages. That's 100% a straw man.

The entire media suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story specifically because it was about politicians and their family taking bribes.

And the government cooperated with FB (and others) to identify Covid misinformation, but the definition of misinformation has changed. It used to be censor-worthy to say Covid came from Wuhan and now that's the accepted likely origin.

> Private moderation of extreme views is a free speech protection afforded to the private owners of spaces. End of story.

In your house, yes. In your mall, in California, no. As you open a place up to the public and trade them the right to be there as FB does in exchange for advertising to you you give away a lot of your rights to control people's actions on your property.
The latter. Since he's complaining about the ad industry from what sounds like a personal perspective.
Adding this to my thesis: Generational divides are the true fault line in this country, more so than race or class, which is why attention to the young is particularly pronounced.

Notice how much of our discussion is around "culture issues": sex and identity, transgender, college campuses, etc. I believe these are Trojan horse issues designed to distract from the overwhelming nuts-and-bolts functions of government, which overwhelmingly favor the elderly. COVID-19 sort-of brought this issue to the front, but in general, Social Security, ADA, etc. are overwhelmingly in favor of the elderly. Efforts to aid the young are often on the face of it helpful while entrenching special interests, with the most recent student debt jubilee being the most recent examples. The next generation will face mounting tuition costs as a result, rather than see greater competition between universities.

The combination of inverted age pyramids and socialized government services, coupled with stagnant wages/recessions/declining real growth, means that fewer and fewer young people are essentially being handed the bill from older generations, and there's not a whole lot to stop it from happening. Anyone old enough to see SS as a potential source of income suddenly have a tremendous incentive to keep it in place, along with the value of their degree, work experience/etc. On these issues, it is worth pointing out that Republicans and Democrats are de facto united - only young Republicans are likely to vote against policies for the elderly.

Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton, and many other influential figures who built the modern world were simply young people whose efforts were spent poring over trade center records and budgets - they were scholars of public finance. Right before COVID, there was an "OK Boomer" meme that I thought might bring this fault to the front of the culture war. It is only a matter of time before some angst-ridden teen realizes that the budget is extremely elderly-focused.
Never did, still don't. I pretty much figure things out by doing them, or read occasional articles.
Rapidly flashing colors may be dangerous for people with epilepsy.
Same boat. I've spent a lot of time learning about permaculture, soil science, etc. I found "Teaming with Microbes" by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis to be right at the level I needed - not so deeply into the weeds that it;s boring, not so surface that I don;t actually learn anything. This book is the first in a series, and it does an excellent job in addressing the exact topics you mention above:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008K8HACU/ref=kinw_myk_ro...

I think from there you'd have a sense of the topics you'd want to pursue and should have enough knowledge to be able to use the right search terms to find it.
Why not

int add(int a, int b) {
unsigned res = (unsigned) a + (unsigned) b;
return (int) res;
}
Definitely yes. I love them, seeing them on my bookshelf is motivation to return to them and complete them. Separately, I also love ebooks for night reading and not requiring space on my bookshelf.
OK I'll step up my game. Very constructive actionable advice, thanks.
> largest being it doesn't make enough money for the rich

Perhaps you have not been to one of the handfull of major metropolis in the world, where day in and day out worker drones get onto public transport to go sit in a cubicle and generate the majority of the money going around in circles in the world. A tiny fraction of that money goes into their pocket and they get on the subway and ride and hour with it. The lions share gets chucked into the trunk of the bently for 4 blocks ride home for the rich.
I kind of would like the CPI to be used as a peg, but also think that if lots of things were pegged to it, the calculation would become a political football.
Switch to zfs.
It's healthier to think of business models more like organisms. Animals aren't "good" or "bad" for having a lifecycle that involves parasitism or predation, stealth or deceit, or any number of behaviors, like cannibalism. Life doesn't care how you live, just that you live.
I have a clear memory of my first team lead telling me to be mindful because “meta work is always more fun than work” when I was fussing with my vimrc. It has stuck with me and I’m yet to see a counter example to it. The rub is that great tooling is ultra high leverage and work adjacent fun is good for the spirits and a sort of intelectual cross training.

So make that 62
On WW II the tanks used a sun compass, the could not use magnetic compass, they know the time, but with the shadow they get the orientation.

http://fer3.com/arc/img/140574.the-sundial-goes-to-war-web.p...
I think 90% of the community will gladly jump ship when a fork materializes. (We will for sure). The question is,who has the firepower to take the lead.

A fellowship of the actor between Tesla, Disney and Wall Street?

It wouldn't need massive innovation. Just security fixes and some natural evolution. E.g. HTTP3 etc.
That could now be really community driven.

One does wonder if the new work should be covered by LGPL V3, as a BSL protective countermeasure.
Or for people that simply don't have as good executive skills, a trait that seems to be more variable than is commonly accepted.
Ask HN: Is anyone recycling food service cold packs?
Meal kit (Hello Fresh, Blue Apron, etc) packaging is mostly recyclable but the cold packs are generating more than 200,000 tons of landfill waste a year.[1] Those packs seem to contain sodium polyacrylate, which is mostly nontoxic but has a number of better uses than landfill, from flocculant to diapers to chelation.[2]

Is anyone thinking of a business to capture and repurpose some of this material?

1. https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/06/meal-kit-freezer-packs-blue-apron-hello-fresh/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_polyacrylate
Site does not work under Firefox Android. I see only big headers can't tap them. Thanks
Heuristics for Effective Software Development Organizations
It's an article about potential competitive threats to Google-Meta, not a survey of the entire online advertising industry. The rise of potential competitors is not "nothing".

"Clickbait" can be used with a lot of publications. But in the list of publications it can be applied to... I'd say the Economist would be ranked about dead last. Maybe tied with Der Spiegel.
> Online advertising is dead

Everything you just said is voided by the fact that Google's ad business continues to boom. It's going nowhere. And I say that as someone that dislikes Google. Your pitch is emotionalism, I've been reading rants like that on HN for the past ~15 years. They're in practically every thread on Google or advertising. Meanwhile Google has gotten 17 times larger in that span of time.

Their business has doubled in size since the beginning of 2019. Their operating income has skyrocketed.

When did the death struggle begin for them exactly?
My personal peave is “utilize”: it's just an excuse to use the letter “z” in a sentence.
First and foremost- this content was stolen. You haven’t paid for it. If you saw a stolen car left on the side of the road, would to take it for a joyride?

Secondly, do you think watching these these videos is making anyone at rockstar fired up? Do you think they like this? I believe that almost all of them are deeply saddened by this. Should we celebrate and respect people’s work by making them feel awful?

Lastly I’m not telling anyone what to do. I’m just merely pointing out that this content is not soul-less. It’s built on the backs of people who did not willingly share this material. I think it’s awesome if people are curious, but I think to is incredible disrespectful to execute that curiosity by forcefully stealing something.
Why is this not on hn front page? This is the bigger than the second coming of christ
Yeah, AFAIR the basic realization at some point was that most freely submitted user reports were either of low quality, part of something that wasn't on the near-term roadmap, or part of something to be addressed more broadly in the near term anyway, so the value of them got lower over time. It kind of happens in every FOSS project to some extent; early on in a project's life, user feedback is almost always useful to help hone your direction and future scope, but at a certain point, that value diminishes once you know the contours of what your users want, competitors do, what timeline you can complete them in, etc. Phabricator and its vision were very stable. Evan at some point moved to a support-only model IIRC because he didn't believe the value versus support burden justified the alternative anymore.

(And actually, you could still submit bugs and comments generally speaking if you were an "old school" contributor who had generally high-value contributions; I was in this category and never had my permissions pulled, and dropped by from time to time to submit things -- but that was the exception and not the rule.)
My first experience with systemd was similar, it was in Fedora 15 and it basically was such an incredible source of frustration.

Seems to be quite serviceable on the happy path, and I quite like it for desktop linux honestly.

But I find it's usually a bit too opaque and "magic" for servers; even if it's causing less and less issues.

I liken the issue to the same one pulseaudio had: a software ecosystem that is poorly designed but foisted together into a perfectly serviceable product by incredible amounts of effort for all involved in its development and release to public.
Do websites not spit at you or do they jsut assume you 'will do no evil'?
Illinois too, on the envelope.
what makes hacker news appealing is the very few reddit style, low effort comments. You should explain your viewpoint instead of this cringy /s business, everyone would be richer for it
Um, I don’t understand how you might feel software emulation has more “flair of authenticity” than a MISTer rig. FPGAs don’t emulate hardware, they are hardware. They are almost exactly like the original.
Thanks, will check. Why does it work on Firefox Desktop but not Android, I wonder
I think this could be solved with a hard liquor backed currency. Not some boring metal or fiat hypnosis, but something of intrinsic, unwavering value. It would put things in perspective. And the sense of security from knowing you've got twenty bottles of whiskey in your pocket would assuage the anxiety of knowing you'll never retire or own a house.

It might also give us an excuse for our society, which would have some real value too.

ONE DOLLAR IN LIQUOR POURABLE TO THE BEARER ON DEMAND
It's an interesting project. Definitely like that it defines its reasons to exist and goals / non-goals first. More big projects should do that clearly.

I'm a bit confused by the early complaints though.

> It assumes there is a user in userspace. (EG: Exposing D-Bus SSH/TCP)

What does this mean?

> Binary logs can be difficult to manage in the event the system is broken and systemd can no longer start.

What kind of managing? To read them you can use --directory to read a specific set of logs from a recovery system and systemd doesn't need to run. What else am I missing?
Look at where the mobile gaming revenue is today:

https://www.giffgaff.com/blog/mobile-gaming-overtakes-pc-and...

On top of that, you can carve out the percentage of “PC Gaming” that is “browser based” since you can run those on a Mac. The industry is moving toward browser based streaming games.

https://www.marketdataforecast.com/market-reports/game-strea...
WaitForMultipleObjects (been in Win32 forever) is not really related to IO completion Ports, whose API came a lot later.

My understanding is that condition variables were designed to be a superior alternative to Windows Event objects.

I'm glad to read here that others find them fiddly and overly awkward to use since that was also my impression vs the consistent and usually easy to use Windows thread synchronization HANDLE based objects. Dave Cutler definitely did a good job there IMHO.
Don't let lawyers confuse form and substance as cover.

It's perfectly possible to address more possibilities in simple language. The result might run longer, but it won't hurt to read.

Too many companies run on legal docs execs don't read. Too may lawyers write those docs to put readers off. If you want robust legal work for your company, maximize accountability for your legal advisers. All the usual tools.
> My rationale is that when your French boss give you a sweat euro. He give 1 euro to the French gov as well for your unemployment / medical / retirement fund.

And if you are a foreign company, you are exempt from this law? I find that hard to believe.
I don’t think this invalidates the point that Costco is not "just an intermediary".
WA will be a launch pad for silicon technology to boost EV batteries
zathura is fantastic.
minimalistic UI and vi-style keybindings. It has a searchable table of contents, and customizable keybindings. recolor (invert-colours) is nice for night-time reading.
Oh, I know. I was just joking that async rust is heavily geared towards build some kind of L7 proxy.
Sure enough my newer (2018?) TV was doing this. Dug into the settings and turned on eco mode. Idling around 0.5 to 1 watt now.

Probably time I go around looking at whats eating up power.
$100 bills are still made, though you're right that there may be reluctance to accept them.

There were bills much larger than $100 at one time, but those were mainly used for things like, e.g. settling accounts between banks in the days before electronic transfers. The largest ever made was a $100,000 gold certificate.
I like this a lot - particularly as there may be a range of reasons that you can’t get hold of a particular book in physical form.

I’ve never used or looked into non-ecosystem e-readers. Do you have any recommendations?
I think people are opening up. "Respect your elders" is a contract with a capped payout. I don't have to acknowledge my neediness, and you give me your attention but not your understanding or love. The middle-man (the social contract) takes too much off the top, it's a compromise where everyone gets a little cheated.
Naive understanding of the world / information.

Say, In a world of 1,000,000,000+ great products, reaching consumers through word-of-mouth is hard.

I bet there are products that solves a lot of your current problems at a decent price. But you don't know about it and none of your friends or network have the same problem for you to give you the solution.

The only way to solve this problem is for the product/service provider to know about you and the fact that you have a problem.

Advertising is actually an optimal / scalable way for companies to reach you.

In a Billion+ product world, you need at least 10 Million Trust worthy reviewers to give you an unbiased review of everything. But, how do you trust the reviewers?
> lossy compression using other methods that preserve razor-sharp edges

Examples? I've never seen lossy compressed icons that didn't look like crap, but what you describe should be possible in theory.
> That's not surprising, because their main purpose is to promote the GPL and "free as in freedom" software.

You're conflating the FSF and the GNU project.
Why would they be heartbroken? They’ll still get to finish the game. Millions of people will still enjoy it like they did RDR2, GTAV, etc. Personally, I disagree with hacking of this nature, but these days people want to get a sneak preview, so I’m really not sure why the developers would see this as anything other than good, or why they wouldn’t just release previews occasionally so people can see what’s to come. None of this stuff is cutting edge or some sort of industry secret or whatever. I, personally, am more excited for GTAVI than I ever have been now that I’ve seen the amount of depth they seem to be adding to the previous iteration!
Yeah, it'll surely fade out given time. It's certainly not a perfect language.
There are plenty of interesting conversations on the Internet, but relatively few happen in large communities, because those prevent many deep conversations from happening just by their nature.

...that wasn't a answer. Here's an answer.

Although their flaws are numerous and well-documented, including their often distasteful beliefs, and although their communities have tons of structural ideological bias, you should check out the "rationalist" community. They can be found on various forums. The discussions on touchy issues have largely moved to forums that are smaller but still public, which can be found with a bit of effort.

One issue with them, and at least one other community I know of with a lot of the "learn it yourself" mentality, is their relationship with subject-matter expertise and authority. It's bloody exhausting to defend oneself against a bunch of ignoramuses in a debate in a tree-style forum, so there's a lot of weird crap ideas floating around. But, at least it's vaguely what you're looking for.
I had a DirecTV satellite receiver with DVR. They rolled out an update and made a big deal their new "Energy Star ECO power savings mode."

I wondered how much power it could really save because it was a DVR with a spinning hard drive that would always record the last 30 minutes of the current channel even if you didn't set it to record anything explicitly.

So I measured it while on and also in "power savings mode" where the video output was off.

14.5W when on and 14.0W when in "power savings mode"

What a joke.
Is there a reliable device certification that I should look for when buying electronics?

Also, after reading this thread I decided to invest into a power consumption metering device.
Let’s not pretend all conceivable applications are, or should be, written in C++.

People mostly stopped using C++ to develop web servers which handle web requests, because they moved to Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc. People mostly stopped using C++ to develop GUI apps which handle these buttons, because they moved to Java, C#, and now JavaScript/TypeScript.

What’s left for C++ is software (or sometimes individual DLLs consumed from other languages) which actually need it to achieve the required performance. Even despite the language is unsafe, low-level, and relatively hard to use which directly affects software development costs.
A modern phone with a 5 Ah ( ~ 18.5 Wh) battery can run for many hours streaming to a builtin screen, meaning it uses far less (anything over 45 minutes is more energy efficient) than a chromecast despite doing more. Same scenario with a laptop with a 60 Wh battery, which can also run a long time in idle, and even while streaming, and is able to resume from sleep in a second. Running more than 2.5 hours on battery means it's more energy efficient than a Chromecast.
> but they perform important economy function: connect buyers and sellers..

Do they? I've never once clicked on an ad and made a purchase, and I'm a fairly regular consumer. If I have a need for a product, I'll search for it.

All advertising does is create a false desire to own a product by psychologically manipulating the viewer. It is dishonest by definition.

In order to make a purchase, I first have to have a need for a product. This should arise naturally, not via some artifically produced desire. Then I'd like to read the true specifications of all suitable products that I can find, and read hopefully real and honest reviews by people who've purchased them. After that, I will narrow down my search and will only make a purchase if I think a specific product will fulfill my needs.

Advertising directly interferes with this concept, steps in as a middle man between buyer and seller, and introduces all kinds of psychological tricks to manipulate me to not even make the purchase--I just need to click on an ad, and I make the advertiser money. It is unnecessary at best, and outright harmful at worst.
This can be easily solved by a class of algorithms called "search algorithms". Most famous ones are "Breadth-first search" and "Depth-first search". They have many variations like "Depth limited depth-first search" and "Iterative deepening depth-first search". If you include heuristics, then you have other variations like "A" and "Iterative deepening A". These are pretty well known and relatively easy to implement.
Simple systems are easy to replace, thus are replaced often until eventually a complex replacement comes forth.

Complex systems are hard to replace, thus stay in place.

This is the way of all things unless there is a design constraint placed on simplicity. In mechanical engineering they design things to be cheap to manufacture: this is the design constraint.

Computers do not have constraints on them, you can burn resources or be as complex as you want: more powerful hardware is around the corner, and after all: why shouldn't abstractions be abstracted ad infinitum; as long as it's easier for people?
You're right and I'm sorry. I should have explained my snarky comment fully.

I meant that they're difficult to use. I would love to be proven wrong or directed to some good resources for learning them.
I also did chem labs in college and software now - this is accurate!
All the ads on the home screen suck now. When I first got my shield I made another account just for it because I didn't want it connected with the rest of my google stuff.