skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yeah.

I misspoke, what I meant was, this isn't the inevitable course of history; the past is prologue and not destiny. I believe one of the reasons this pattern repeats is the idea that it is "natural" and inevitable, and while it is literally true that it is natural - everything is - that doesn't mean it is "human nature" in the sense that it is inescapable. Cancer is natural, that doesn't mean we have to accept it.

> That being said, I think you're ascribing to intent what is attributable to worldview: people of that sort see history in terms of the advancement of the Gospel, the ongoing Communist revolution, or the progress of industrialization, and they communicate it as such.

I agree, I was personifying larger-than-human phenomena, so while I find intent to be a useful metaphor it it isn't literally true. The thing I want to communicate with this metaphor is that there are choices and an agenda involved, motivated reasoning.

Your examples are good, I think a particularly illustrative one is "the white man's burden"; the idea that white people must bear the "burden" of the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism more broadly is patently absurd, very clearly working backwards from the premises that colonialism is good, actually, and good for the colonized at that, to find an intellectual justification for behavior that was obviously deeply immoral and incompatible with their stated beliefs. This is just going so far out on a limb that it's really easy to see the game they're playing, but in all of these examples we've cited, it's a repackaging of political realism to match the aesthetics of that society and time in history.

Someplace I see this in our time is in the rhetoric of Jordan Peterson, an obvious chauvinist who's created an intellectual framework for why the patriarchy is good, actually. If you peer past his showmanship and undeniable charisma, you see the that same kernel of political realism; "the strong do what they may, and the weak suffer what they must." So for him in particular it's like, oh isn't it so terrible that the lower class is destitute, but what's much more important than their conditions are that we need steep hierarchies, and wouldn't you know it, I've got some misrepresentations of lobster biology to justify this as natural and inevitable. Peterson is far more artful than Kipling, and he does a better job of keeping the quiet part quiet, but it's a repackaging of the same ideas.
> Humans are good at reading columns at around roughly 80 characters

Depends. The reason why it may seem better to have narrow column is so you can skip ahead more easily and thus read faster (reason why newspaper divide an article into columns). Otherwise it doesn't make difference.

To me it's absurd that this day the trend is to have wide screen displays (16:9 but nowadays even 21:9 is common) and then all the text is vertical in a column that makes it impossible to read.

I prefer to give the use a choice: after all if the user prefers narrow text all he has to do is to take the mouse and resize the browser window at the width that he likes! But doing the opposite is not possible (at least without an extension that modifies CSS), and thus you have to keep scrolling something that otherwise would have fitted in a single screen.
US houses can draw 166 KW (or half that if older 100amp service) but you’d probably be raided for running a grow op.
Am I missing something about the value of this submission?

If not, why’re you spamming HN with a domain that’s literally a single image?
It would be nice if you could choose between defaults in the html tag <html style-default="2022">
Have you ever been under the influence of other drugs?

I find the sobriety claims only as they relate to alcohol to be silly. Younger people are using other drugs at far higher rates than in the past, so the overall level of sobriety is probably not every different.
In voltage, you're right. In amperage, you're dead.
> I can't just see the passwords for those users, that's not how it works

But you _could_ likely install a malicious ssh server, bash binary, or whatever, that logs them for you as people enter them.
Nix? Are you talking about the package manager from NixOS? I didn’t know that was MacOS-friendly these days, neat! Can you link us to any good articles discussing differences between it and Homebrew?

Also, what is/are Flakes?
I'm sure "Mental Disorders" was probably not meant to denigrate the giant chunk of humanity that does suffer from such disorders, especially not those in the military that are probably most at risk? Particularly because the US military is volunteer based and mostly recruits from disadvantaged citizens?

Also, if this is a legit shadow practice in the US military, the issue isn't people claiming disability, but our collective lack for caring for them.
I would doubt Wyoming has such a law?
Oppose PayPal’s assault on liberal democracy
>That would not be caused by an inert missile impact

Why not? Inert missile punches through a fuel tank, aerosolizing the fuel, and either the missile engine or a damaged aircraft engine ignites it.
I don't understand the New Jersey connection; the plane went down quite far from the NY/NJ border: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800#/media/File:TWA...
This requires you to know up front which expenses you want to track, though. If you don't, and you change your mind later, you get to do that table scan anyway, so you may as well actually record the metadata that makes it possible.

edit: I read what you're describing here as a single entry system if you just read "expense account" as "expense type"; double entry would be if you physically recorded each of those in two places. It's entirely possible we're arguing about semantics.
https://www.nasm.us/xdoc/2.15.05/html/nasmdoc2.html

The NASM website is an example of this. Personally, I don't like it and would prefer a single column.
I have a military backpack (Savotta) and you can buy additional MOLLE bags and attach them easily pretty much anywhere on it. Extremely useful.
same here, but I'm embracing modern c++ these days, not for all low level coding yet though.
Not really. That's what liability insurance is for. In order to be in business, the manufacturer has to have business insurance which covers these sorts of things.

Equating the cost of the interlock to the quality of its performance doesn't hold up. I suspect that your experience is from automation where things like laser light curtains and lidar sensors are common (and expensive). On things like a Haas milling machine the door switch interlock is $400-$1200 (https://parts.haascnc.com/haasparts/en/USD/search?q=*:*:allC...)

So in the case of a $400 laser etcher from China being sold on Amazon, they need to spend less money on their switch than Haas does. The nice thing is that the switches for Haas need to be waterproof, etc. as they get coolant and oil sprayed on them all day. In the laser cutter it's different, so they can use a less expensive more appropriate part.

The right part for the job it seems, more expensive isn't always better (or safer).
Allow me to go off on a tangent and say:

> 30 years of HTML

holy fucking shit
Macos’ spotlight can do this AFAIK.
This week, Paypal froze the accounts of Toby Young, a British right-wing journalist and bête noire of liberals. Seemingly, Paypal took the decision on political grounds. Surprisingly, many liberals have defended Paypal.

Why can’t liberals recognize the dangers of corporations engaging in censorship? For example, firms have undertaken many of the acts which have eroded Hungarian democracy. Where does this stop? Is it legitimate to deprive Young of electricity and a mobile phone?

When partisans use freedom of speech as a weapon, only demanding it for colleagues, the principle withers, liberal democracy surely following. Whatever one’s opinion of Young, Paypal’s act has undermined liberal democracy. Friends of liberty should oppose it.
Every left wing government was fine with cheap russian gas for decades.
As a Go expert, you should consider fixing it, and more people will be willing to use Go for performance-oriented projects. Like it or not, a lot of people go to the benchmarks game website to think about programming language performance.
Well, they could convince their management to restart doing clang contributions for ISO C++ compliance, or maybe allocate 20% of their time for that.
> I've read IBMs docs on their processor architectures, I'm sure they're fast enough but no more than that.

I’ve played with the LinuxONE community cloud for a while and one thing that quickly become obvious is how ridiculously fast the machines are. Not only the 5+ GHz CPUs but all that very smart IO that seems to magically predict what the CPU will want, and have it on hand.

And the cache architecture of the z16 CPU is awesome.
> The human experience is inseparable from the human body.

I'd say that the human body is just one very sophisticated I/O device.

The fact that we can't replicate it now doesn't mean that it wouldn't be possible after a millenia of engineering, even though this replacement device might as well be a partially organic one in the end.

That said, there are no guarantees that we don't fall into a sort of "dark age" of no more growth/research into any new directions, or don't wipe ourselves out altogether.
Ask HN: Looking for Email Service Recommendations
Hi all - with gmail recently instituting a storage limit, I'm starting to run into trouble with my usual gmail account. I'm recognizing the era of free everything is over, but I'd rather pay an organization that takes privacy seriously.

What is an email service you would recommend that will not be categorized as spam if I email the conventional gmail etc accounts?

Thanks
You can, it's just the answer will be "Someone using (ISP)". Even then, that ISP will be the one to contact.
When do you suggest nuclear reactors should be shut down? After they stop being functional? Seems risky.

Is the timing unfortunate? Yes. But everything else is just exaggerated. This was a small reactor which was responsible for a tiny amount of production in a tiny country.

Should we replace it? Maybe. But then we should have started construction 20 years ago. Given that this didn't happen, the rest of the discussion is somewhat moot. We could probably start replacing it today, but not many nuclear power plants are being built in Europe, costs are insane, and timeframes are so long that no one is willing to invest.

There are (somewhat literally) crowd funded suppliers of renewable energy (cooperatives like Ecopower.be). Perhaps someone should start something similar for nukes.
Who would allow the CCP to scan their device?
??????

>Kirill, who is half-Ukrainian, said he cannot imagine going to war and killing Ukrainians. "I will not be able to explain my actions to relatives who are in Ukraine. We talk every day," he said.
In the same way, N. N. Taleb talks of the wisdom of grandmothers. All the old sayings represent hard earned knowledge.

Some traditions are based on superstition, but certainly not all of them.
Exactly, the entire article on sobriety doesn't even mention the word "drugs". Young people are using other drugs more, and alcohol less.
Isn't there a statute of limitations? 1996 was 26 years ago.
A convention for writing JSON, YAML, or whatever config files that standardized types of options, their default, and something about their types (is it a toggleable boolean, a bounded continuous value, an integer, etc etc) could be nice. It might be possible to provide enough info automatically generate the GUI (draw the first as a button, the second as a slider, and the third as a number box), and that sort of info would be helpful to have if you were writing the file by hand anyway.
Most countries need their electrical heaters and cooking stoves as well during the night.
"But without a "legacy IT" constraint, what's the compelling spreadsheet model for a YC company to choose a mainframe?"

The most compelling reasons for the mainframe, based on its intrinsic values, are 'RAS' (reliability, availability, serviceability). However, those virtues come with a very high price tag. So far the most part, I cannot imagine any startup business choosing one (UNLESS system downtime will kill the business).
Troll, hack, or something else?
>> The high speed impact of an inert body into an aircraft the size of a 747 is not a reasonable explanation for a violent in-flight breakup

Please explain this assertion. It makes no sense (at least to me).
It should be possible to bail out the people without bailing out the companies, and it should be doable without generic QE. What if the government builds its own farms and grocery stores and housing complexes? Would that be bad because of how much control it would give the government or would it be good because of how much control it wrests away from private industry?
And what if someone is not a utilitarian?
Content on the web used to flow pretty well irrespective of those factors. The 'liquid' layout in Adobe's pdf reader works as it should, as does the simplified view in Chrome (which is suspiciously only offered on sites without ads). So, I'm optimistic that simplified layouts are worth pursuing.
The modern approach is to do a universal rest:

*, *:before, *:after {
all: unset;
display: revert;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
I would still appreciate an opt-in "modern" default that browser developers should feel free to change going forward. For me, it's not about minimizing download size; it's about maintaining a proper division between content and functionality, which are what I as an author and developer provide, and appearance, which should be up to the user agent, to best meet the user's needs and preferences. Sure, since I work on accessibility and am visually impaired myself, my perspective on this is skewed. Still, there are clearly others who wish the browser would have more sensible defaults.
We are discussing the efficiency of the electric power grid to charge all existing vehicles from 2022, assuming they would be all electric as of tomorrow.
what works financially is providing a fleet of simple similar independent machines.

think "your personal wordpress instance w/ own email and ftp server", centrally maintained, identical baseline but individual content.

to this day Linux KVM does not enable multi tenancy. with z/VM you can provide that, and you still have the shared /usr in physically shared ram in z/vm.

the physical CPUs are also virtualized and shared, each "full own wordpress server" only needs slivers of that cpu pool.

it was done and it qorkwd. and it was profitable for both the hosters and IBM.
You're right, it's not that easy. I worked in the VA system for three years during residency, and it was relatively rare to see a veteran who was considered 100% service connected. I had a patient who was exposed to Agent Orange and later developed Hodgkin lymphoma, and while the cancer was treated successfully, the surgery and radiation left him with permanent disabilities that impaired his day to day life. Even he was not determined to be 100% service connected. (He came close - something like 80% if I remember correctly - but not 100%.)

I personally never saw someone who was determined to be 100% service connected purely for PTSD, but I am also not a psychiatrist so it's possible that there is a selection bias there.
Homicide is typically one of the things that doesn't have a statute of limitations.

In some scenarios, SOL also starts from the discovery of the crime/tort, not the committing of it.
1. You should never use the CIA as a moral example for your children.

2. With respect to lying about hundreds of people dying, is that really a surprise to you? Just a few possible examples off the top of my head.

RMS Lusitania, claimed to be carrying tens if not hundreds of tons of undeclared high explosives, which would have made it a 'legitimate' target for the u-boat that sank it. This is officially denied, but the Royal Navy has since endeavored to destroy the wreck and warn divers away from investigating it.

K-219, a Soviet ballistic missile sub, sank in early October 1986. Later that month USS Augusta, an American attack submarine, went in for repairs to a smashed radar dome. The US Navy denies any connection between the two.

K-129, another Soviet ballistic missile sub, sank in 1968. The US Navy figured out where it was before anybody else, claiming to have found it using sonar buoys and Bayesian search techniques. A few days after K-129 sank, USS Swordfish went into port for repairs after a supposed collision with sea ice. The US Navy denies any connection between the two.

MS Estonia was a ferry that sank in 1980 when the front loading doors failed. Allegations that the ferry was being used to smuggle military hardware were denied by everybody, then the wreck was deliberately buried under thousands of tons of gravel so that nobody can inspect it.

1988, the US Navy shoots down Iran Air Flight 655. The US Navy claims it was self-defense because their Aegis cruiser misidentified the Airbus A300 as an Iranian F-14.
This isn’t very interesting, these are all well known books you can find listed elsewhere. I was hoping for something original.
I want them to get good wages to the point I paid additional taxes, half to the Federal Government and half to the State of California. 45% of income, while in the lowest tax bracket, blowing literally every billionaire out of the water. Why? Gratitude, first off, because they prescribed me stimulants knowing I had been treated for addiction, which was risky, and which I couldn't have done in the private sector. Took a risk. Made a bet. Helped me. Went very very well for everybody. And consequently I made sure it went well for the government, sure it's not that much money but it does pay for eg a tank of gas on a police cruiser, send in the cavalry. And I would argue I look great on their balance sheet, obviously better than Jeff Bezos.

And I did the math and noted, first, to get a dollar out of State of California, you have to pay them a million in taxes. In aggregate. Like if you pay a million dollars in taxes and it's equally distributed, maybe not a million to one quite but around there. Very close, ballpark, at least for the purposes of the following estimate:

I got a 1000000000x speedup (actually a bit more but I frequently round down to a more impressive number) on an algorithm thanks to those stimulants, and then it made sense: I still got 1000x ROI from paying taxes. Purely mathematical about it. Best money I ever spent! If you get a big enough speedup, taxes are a great investment. And they're the only thing that get people out of the absolute deepest holes.
If they start verifying these claims, I think we'd have a strong candidate for worst job in the world:

> if you have erectile dysfunction then it's a 10% disability claim. They take you at your word, no "proof" needed.
No we won‘t.

Gas storages will be almost completely full and the usage has already dropped a lot.

Maybe next winter. But by then we probably have a replacement.
DEVONsphere Express, Recoll, also the latest major version of Calibre.
Regarding influence - there is a fairly recent report (Sep, 20th) from German journalists on the Russian lobby: https://correctiv-org.translate.goog/aktuelles/russland-ukra...
My understanding is that the chronology of all eyewitness accounts for the missile have been after the airframe was known to have broken up, meaning that they were most likely seeing large sections of the burning fuselage. Are there other eyewitness accounts that don’t match that, or are you saying that the official chronology is itself suspect?
In jest I'll also assume the author could write a similar article lamenting what storage tech could have been, but instead everyone with data that mattered took the maintenance hit with RAID and called it a day.

Commoditization is, to me, just a natural effect of product development in a free market, capitalist(-ish) society. It feels to me that as long as much of the population is chasing financially optimal outcomes this will continue to happen, and that may be okay.
I wouldn't put it about the money as much as "there is only so deep a pool of competent workers, and if another 5 million of them are hired in the public sector, labor in the private sector becomes correspondingly worse."

It's unfortunate that the city can't hire enough secretaries. Do I want them to poach competent workers from my ISP, Target, Amazon, or my insurance company? Not really, no.
That's not the point. I doubt that the engineers who worked on the compression algorithms would store their own precious photos using the same techniques.

Also, when was the last time you heard a banker say that everyone makes mistakes all the time.
What have you personally seen or perceived, if you're able to discuss in detail?
> But do you trust that every web extension that will exist will not abuse that full access? I sure don't.

I sure don't.

But that is not in my threat model because I have zero intention of ever installing every web extension that will exist.

In my threat model the evil parties are the advertising/spyware industry (which includes google) so I want powerful browser extensions to help with that problem.
> Hence, a lot of screen space is wasted and the user has to scroll more

Unfortunately that appears to be the case for a great many sites when viewed on a mobile device.

My current pet hate is British Airways, https://www.britishairways.com/travel/home/public/en_gb/ has so much wasted space that on my Pixel I have to scroll to reach the buttons "Manage My Booking" and "Check In". Further down the page the "Your account" and "Sign up" bits are so large and generously padded that they fill my mobile device's screen all by themselves.

Is this by design? Maybe in some warped design brief "scrolling" = "[potential] customer interaction" = a KPI gets fulfilled?
Show HN: LuaRT 1.0, open source Windows programming framework for Lua
LuaRT is a free and now open source Windows programming framework for Lua, with a Windows-optimized runtime library and integrated development tools. This project aims to facilitate Lua programming by better integrating Lua with Windows operating systems.

Main features :

- Uses latest Lua 5.4.4 VM

- The runtime is lightweight and does not rely on any other libraries

- Desktop/console applications and x86/x64 binaries supported

- A number of built-in modules are available, including GUI, networking, compression, encryption, etc.

- Object-oriented programming with multilevel inheritance, mixins, constructors, destructors, properties...

- The development tools include a Lua script to executable compiler, LuaRT Studio IDE, and a REPL.

Regards,

Samir
Unions don’t work the way you think they do. If they are large unions they actually actively negotiate against the workers as well. Take a look at the railroad union as an example.

Only smaller local unions are effective at negotiating wages and benefits
I think climate change is a very important problem, too important to be left to “climate activists.” The environmental movement totally screwed us in the 1970s by lashing climate-change activism to anti-nuclear and degrowth. The only politically feasible way of addressing climate change is to grow and engineer our way out of it. Even leaving aside people in the developed world, people in India and China will not accept that the solution for them is to delay or avoid industrialization and remain subsistence farmers.
GTFO Cuba, then.
Hologram Microcosm: Make anything sound cinematic
A non-negative real yield on cash means its purchasing power never decreases. Is there an objective reason that the purchasing power of cash should never decrease? Negative yields encourage economic activity and discourage hoarding (use it or lose it).