skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read my first comment with intent to understand my point or just to nitpick me? I said pretty clearly:

> If you are part of an ideological tribe that wants to protect humans from each others' petty brutality you must seize land, establish the rule of law, and murder or expel people who challenge your regime.

If people care about human rights abuses, they need to seize land, establish the rule of law, and murder or expel people who challenge their regime.

For instance: there are known sex traffickers inside the United States who are sent to prison for years when they're caught and then they get out. If you want to curtail that practice to a greater degree than it is, you need to murder or expel people who do it, not just give them an official time-out and then make life more difficult for them afterwards by reducing their employment options and curtailing their right to vote. Another option is indefinite containment, but that's a large drain on resources and extremely difficult to operate without simply ending up with a prison system like the US has, which is low-status and overtly corrupt and underfunded (in the sense that the funding goes to profit rather than to the effective operations of the prisons).

In short: the safety of civilized people who participate in society in good faith needs to be violently protected from people who take advantage of them. This is obviously not the case in the US, and it's certainly not the case in outlying rural regions in Asia and Africa, where people are forced to scam under threat of punishment.
Satellite dishes used to be banned by almost all HOAs in America until the FCC prohibited it.
https://spectrumam.com/fcc-regulations-satellite-dishes

Basically:

If the buildings are condos or townhomes, then the building is owned by the HOA. In a condo, the homeowner owns from the paint inwards. In a townhouse, the HOA owns the structural elements, but in short, the homeowner owns the sheetrock and paint on "their" side of the walls. Exterior walls and roofs are owned by the HOA.

If the buildings are detached single family houses, then the building is owned by the homeowner.
Isn't arbitrary reflection how Spring, Hibernate, AspectJ, every JSON library and other common libraries that you may be using directly or indirectly work?
Swatting doesn't work in any other country than America because in any other country than America, the police won't immediately murder someone based on a phone call.
How do I get one? I live in a high wind area.
I know this article is about the US, but in the UK, 30 year fixes are very rare nowadays. Most people are on 2 to 5 year fixes which revert to adjustable or trackers. The norm here is to refinance to a new fix every few years.

If rates were to go up to 8%+, a lot of homeowners here would be unable to meet their repayments. The basis of the stress testing we've been doing since 2014 was only whether people could afford their mortgage if rates rose by 3%.
> The proper branch of government to decide this is Congress passing a law, not each major making it up as they go along.

Congress did decide this already by passing legislation a century ago granting temporary increased powers to the executive in event of national emergency and its declaration.

> It is definately distopian for employers to decide anything on this matter -they are not sibject to dempcratic scruitiny.

Government employment is already dystopian and private employers can have any requirements they like short of discriminating against religion, race, disability, etc. There are no federal protections for political disposition.

> And there are many methods of reducing covid infection avaliable - installing air purifiers, improving ventillation in schools, Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI).

The virus was already circulating due to unpreparedness and slow reaction by the administration in office. Had we seen a two week stay home order in February, the crisis would likely have been averted, but the executive was overly concerned about the economy, which tanked anyway regardless of putting 300M+ Americans at risk of infection, illness and/or death.

> If situation is so serious, whu are none of those being mandated? Now we know current vaccines give you immunity for like 6 months and new variants appear very rapidly.

Again, COVID was already circulating by late February 2020, and if two vaccinations a year are required from now until the end of time, it is still a very small price to pay, a minor inconvenience at worst with the benefit of increased resistance to infection, severe illness, hospitalization, and/or death.
BOL-148 is not like the others. All others are N1-acyl analogs of LSD, so unlike bol148 they rapidly metabolize to LSD proper. This also means until they make a prodrug or analog law, it will be easy to keep on thinking of new LSD prodrugs. Here are a few free ones that will certainly work, no payment to me required: isovaleroyl, cyclobutanecarbonyl, oxetanecarbonyl(both isomers), cyclopropylacetyl.
Jason Kottke, unrelated - https://kottke.org/99/06/dan-kottke
But no harm comes to me if my house value drops considerably if I'm not selling it. I keep on paying the same mortgage payment as before and I keep on living in my house. If the mortgage payment was worth it before, then it is worth it after.

The risk here is a home's value dropping a lot, putting somebody underwater, and then life circumstances forcing them to sell. That's bad. But for the rest of us that happily make our mortgage payments it doesn't mean a thing if the spam emails from Zillow show a new number.
Where is the quote from? Sounds familiar.
looking at renewables power generation it seems wind is slightly going down at night too , certainly not picking up

https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...
i believe that is a fair question and i believe that ethics are personal and each individual must find/define their own ethics based on their own values and life experiences.

here is where i am coming from:

1. the end user is on a google search engine results page (SERP) and sees the blog post author's website as one of the search results

2. the end user clicks the link to the blog post author's website

3. the end user is now on the blog post author's website

4. the end user hits the back button

- i believe the end user has a reasonable expectation that they will be back on the google search engine results page... but *they are not*. they are on a mockup that looks like the google SERP but is in fact controlled by the blog post author.

5. the end user clicks on a "link" to a competitor's website - but the "link" is actually yet another mockup created and hosted by the blog post author.

i believe this is highly unethical! they are fooling an unsuspecting end-user into thinking they are visiting a brand new site, but they most definitely are not doing so. ultimately, i think that google and other browser authors should remove the possibility for this sort of trickery. i do admire the blog post author for posting the social engineering/programming trickery while still viewing it as unethical.

edit: at the bottom of the blog post the author links this previous HN comment which i find interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17826106 - and this one is as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823886#17826206
Android funneled quite a lot of users into Google apps to sell more ads or ad placements.
Scaling this service without breaking the bank could become its own "sad server" scenario.

I'd start by moving the test VMs to bare-metal servers running libvirt. You can get a 128GB RAM server for ~110 EUR and that should be able to run around 120 concurrent VMs assuming 1GB of RAM to each (CPU isn't a major issue in this case).
This is a really nice benefit. It honestly was weird coming from a country where knowing the social security number alone lets you take over someone's life and as such is highly regulated and locked down. The first time a random site prompted me for my personnummer I had a heart attack.

But once you adjust to it for a second, it's quite nice. My personnummer is public info, and that's fine. With just that number alone, you can't do jack shit. Everywhere it's used online requires you to confirm/sign an action with BankID, or requires a valid ID and physical presence IRL. That's not to say it's impossible to social engineer your way into getting a BankID issued to you for your victim, but it's on the level of "getting someone's social security number" in other countries hard. Any site using BankID for auth doesn't get access to the cert so they can't leak it, and you can revoke your BankID for individual authenticators (like your phone) which you can't do with an SSN.
I've been reading https://usesthis.com for a while now. They interview people with the goal of understanding what tools (hardware, software, etc.) they use.
Ultimately it comes down to deception. If an employee can do everything requested without lying, then maybe there is a defense.

This position collapses the first time someone's boss asks about workload and the employee has to lie or admit they have tons of free time.

Im sure there are unicorn cases where employees are never asked how long a task will take, or about their bandwidth for new tasks. However, in reality, the vast majority of situations require constant deception.

Most of the time the lying starts at the beginning with false employment history.
For work, HP Zbook 15 with Windows 10. It's a decent laptop. It's bulky and I don't care for the keyboard, but it performs well and I usually have it in a docking station.

At home, Thinkpad x250 running Linux Mint. At one point in time I enjoyed experimenting with many different distros, but now I use Mint because it mostly "just works" out of the box.

I don't know what will replace the Thinkpad. Since I don't currently use it for work, it's fine that it is old - it works and doesn't need to be replaced yet. From many stories I've heard about modern Thinkpad's, I doubt whether I would buy another. Maybe my next personal laptop will just be a tablet with a keyboard case.
The claims made in the article are too over the top to be able to take them seriously - particularly the idea that wind is somehow going to even out the stochasticity of solar. In most locations, and particularly at the heights implied the notion of "rooftop" wind, wind is just as variable as solar. They might well be partially complementary (there isn't much wind on the best solar days, where I live, but might be good wind on cloudy days; but still, when the sun down goes here, the wind goes with it 4 nights out of five).

These turbines may or may not be a good deal for many sites, but you sure can't tell that it's even a question from this article.
> Noone locked their bikes!

Wow this is a surreal comment. More than 65,000 bikes are reported stolen each year in Sweden [0] - but this is just the tip of the iceberg, as a stolen bike is so common that hardly anyone even bothers reporting it.

[0] https://bra.se/statistik/statistik-utifran-brottstyper/cykel...
Yeah there are important selection effects at work. You nailed one but I think you missed another. Five minutes is the completion time for those that did complete it. The people who abandoned the application might have done so because they realized it would have taken hours or even days to dig up the relevant information for the required fields.

The people who can complete it in five minutes are those that have all the information at their fingertips, because they already applied to tens or hundreds of other jobs. The person who has worked for your competitor for 15 years, and is considering making one single application to you will have to do more work.
So invade other countries? Establish new governments that do what we like?

That doesn't have a history of good outcomes for anyone.
The Microsoft policies are unclear. I was around when Fedora came up with its current Secure Boot policies and may even have contributed to a somewhat maximalist interpretation. Fedora and others operate under the assumption that Secure Boot needs to prevent the execution of unsigned code in ring 0 (or the Arm equivalent), but is this actually required for a signature from Microsoft? Unclear. Plenty of distributions had their shims signed without kernel module signing implemented in the distribution.

I think the current policy is here:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/hardware-dev-center/u...

It doesn't mention kernel mode. The focus on kernel mode may not even be appropriate because many bad things can happen without kernel mode (wiping local disks, operating the hardware beyond safe parameters).
We should outlaw ARM for most people. It should only be for "accredited borrows" like we do for investing. People who don't really understand the risks get screwed and it creates unnecessary bubbles.
> People are forced into them if they want to buy a house

“Forced” in the sense that they voluntarily enter them by buying a house in an HOA.

Each HOA (or lack thereof) is a property of the house you are looking to buy. Complaining about being forced to take the HOA is like complaining about being forced to be a part of the county.
Yes, these days we lock our homes even when we're home.
Lenovo G580, Dualbooting between BunsenLabs Linux and Windows 7 (for the odd occasion where I need Windows programs, specifically Photoshop).

The laptop has gone through it's set of upgrades of it's internals in a ship-of-theseus manner, but despite being a decade old now, it still functions really well as my daily driver!

This is a laptop from the time before hardware was completely abstracted away from tinkerers so it's been a joy to ttretch my muscles every few years and breathe new life into this system. Have an upgrade for the battery lined up since the battery-life is ridiculously low right now, but not much I can complain about besides that.
AWS will raise limits if you ask. Increasing EC2 instance limits is usually a quick turn around.
The total lack of temporary birth control for men leads to people taking longer term measures...
I think the idea is that corporate owners are helping keep prices propped up because they’re much less sensitive to vacancy. They can let a house sit unoccupied for much longer before dropping the price to get someone in compared to a small time landlord. Smalltimers don’t usually have the capital available to do that and will either need to drop prices to get someone in the house or sell the house.
This analysis would be valid if we were talking about lambda calculus or a Lisp with square brackets.

Jevko isn't that. It's not a programming language[0]. It's just syntax, with even less semantics than JSON and even simpler than S-expressions.

There are no symbols or references in Jevko.

It's important here to separate syntax and semantics. S-expressions are not Lisp. They are its syntax. Semantics is a separate matter.

@gnulinux and @User23 have it right.

Strings are an implementation detail. You could store the parsed text as numbers or you could Gödel-encode the entire tree into one giant number.

Saying then that Jevko is nothing but numbers is conflating things.

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Just to clarify, in Jevko `[b b]` doesn't parse to what your description implies you think it does. `b[b]` or `[[b][b]]` would be closer to that. If you are interested in the details, please have a look at the specification or diagrams:

* https://jevko.org/spec.html

* https://jevko.org/diagram.xhtml

From there you should be able to easily write a parser in your favorite Lisp! ;)

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> can you explain what

mid.endsWith('=')? "attr": "tag"

> is doing? It sure looks to me like it's asking whether a symbol (i.e. indivisible atom) ends with an equal sign, which is semantic gibberish.

There are no symbols or indivisible atoms here.

What's happening here is parsing. `jevkoToHtml` is a kind of parser-transpiler which operates on a syntax tree, rather than a sequence of characters or tokens.

The syntax tree is the output of an earlier stage of parsing, done by the Jevko parser.

So you can think of this as multi-pass parsing, by analogy with multi-pass compilation.

At the same time as this second pass of parsing is happening, translation to HTML is happening as well.

Hope this clarifies things!

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[0] To clearly see the point, here is a toy programming language which uses Jevko as its syntax: https://github.com/jevko/jevkalk
Personally my favorite db for pet projects is

https://www.arangodb.com/

I think you hear very little about it because ADB users see it as a "secret weapon" to crush their competitors with. I've done large ontology work (MESH and other health ontologies) and IoT work (keep several years of sensor readings for sensors in my house) and workflow systems (select interesting HN articles or jobs I want to apply to) and it has never let me down. I haven't run a real instance serving customers in the cloud though.

For the last few years every eng manager I have worked with has been a fan of

https://www.postgresql.org/

In the early 2000s I thought it overpromised and underdelivered and called it CrashGreSlow but after MySQL got bought by Oracle the pgsql team has worked hard to improve it I think it is great today. It supports all kinds of advanced features such as stored procs, full-text search, JSON equivalent fields, etc.
Many people I know, cashed out big on their stocks/ crypto. They may not be in the bucket of foreclosure unless they make seriously dubious financial choices and ruin their worth.

They will hold the reins on their houses and take some losses if need be, but ride it coolly till the end...

My 2C.

Thanks
I've got the same mindset. In my case though, I feel it's mostly because I want to put my stamp on the world somewhere. As a web developer, I've built some pretty amazing sites over the last 20+ years in the industry, but I can count the number that still exist out there with just a few fingers, probably not even a good portion of one of my hands. I accept that as part of the industry that I'm in, but I've still got that nagging feeling of wanting to put something out there more permanent. So, I do game development, and art, and writing, and music production. Do I think I'm the next person to make it huge with any of these? No... it would be nice, but no. I just want to have something tangible out there that when I'm gone and forgotten, someone can load up an old game of mine, or listen to a track that I produced, or see an image hanging that I drew or painted, and for a brief moment, my legacy will live on.

Now, the problem I face, I've got way too many hobbies, and I'm not even to "Jack of All Trades" level for any of them... can't seem to focus my talents in any single direction.
Unless you work in tech, finance or medical everyone is broke. So everything is looked at as a possible way to make some extra money because their current job doesn't pay a livable wage.
My favorite part of this account isn't the "test your backups!" lesson. It's the "Have an amazing team" lesson. In one weekend, a team of actual humans sorted through thirty thousand files by hand.

Surround yourself with amazing people, and you will find amazing solutions.
Well this sucks I wanted to try it lol. It's timing out for me or throws an error.
You write it in their contract or fire them when you find out.

California offers protection for "lawful conduct occurring during nonworking hours away from the employer's premises."

Note that it specifies "nonworking hours". There is also an exemption for working for a competitor.

https://www.mossbollinger.com/blog/2020/december/my-employer...
Debugging Wine with LLDB and VSCode
Holy cow man, 1/2-1 g/day is a ton. I've already said that I think daily use is inherently heavy use, but 1/2-1 g/day is quite heavy use. You might be getting an unrealistic perception because you just know a bunch of crazy high users, but there's no reasonable measure by which your usage is only "moderate".
‘China is under siege’
On one hand, values could stand to change to great effect. On the other, these characteristics didn't pop out of nowhere. It's a bit like cryptocurrency today: as some have put it, a 19th century speedrun towards rediscovering the reason why banking regulations exist.

The other distinction is between companies that have this horizontal ethos AND have a profit generating golden goose (Valve, Motion Twin/Evil Empire) and those that adopt the ethos without it. This is where the real test comes in.

Personally, I would take a 32 hour/4 day workweek at full comp over all of these values put together. Except maybe team-set salaries, that would be interesting if also dangerous for some
I replied to you in another subthread, but I'm curious how you would have judged me (I'm assuming "deny"), I had a 36 on the ACT (a perfect score) and a 1.97 GPA.
> Plenty of economies have collapsed without everyone starving to death or being murdered.

Not in the last 50 years, not at the scale I'm talking about. Not to the point food stops being made, stored or transported, and there is no "outside" (such as international aid) to help. Closest to that would be warn-torn zones, where people in fact do starve and die.

There's hardly any hyperbole here. With the entire food sector operating just-in-time, at any given moment a modern city has enough food to last a week or two, and that's with refrigeration running. In case of global economic collapse or even global power outage, that's all you'll get in the city. There will be no more food coming after that.
In the context of banking and financing for the entirety of human history, 4.09% is fantastic, outstanding, amazing.

In the context of the last four years it is not. It is "merely" good.

I do not consider the last four years to be the foundation on which to start building assumptions.

Even in the context of the last four years, for auto loans 4.09% is only above average for about six of the last 48 months (Sept 2021 - Feb 2022).
I don't think so. The time for requirements is when the loan is originated. I think it's typical to require mortgage insurance when the loan is more than 80% of the value, and it's very uncommon to loan more than 95% of the value.

If the loan goes underwater later, usually because of market conditions, maybe because of creative loan features, then the lender has no leverage to require anything.
Why does Tor Browser only have an en-US distribution - https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/11.5.5/ - and not the other english variants ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/ )?

Tor Browser 11.5.5 backports the following security updates from Firefox ESR 102.4 to to Firefox ESR 91.13 on Windows, macOS and Linux ...

Why doesn't Tor Browser use Firefox 102.4 ESR itself?
No. Why would they?

You are required to have insurance when you have a loan on a property. The insurance rates could actually drop due to lower cost to replace your house.

Underwater property just means you owe more than it is worth. However, if your interest rate is low, you might be paying less than someone who is not underwater.
Found the YIMBY
The interest rate increases so far have not had any effect on inflation. This makes sense, the inflation is being caused by money that has already been injected into the market and the normal price corrections that an increased interest rate would normally cause is ironically causing losses to the fed itself as it bought basically the entire corporate bond market up during covid. I expect the fed to keep raising rates into an unresponsive market, getting more and more desperate.

Secondly, we've seen rates higher than 12% during periods of much less inflation and a greater ability for the fed to curb inflation via interest rate increases (specifically the early '80s).