skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very much agreed. Group chats and instant messaging are the prime social media platforms.

You won’t troll in group chats because you’ll be removed and it’s difficult or impossible to get back. Unlike public platforms where you can sign up for 300 new accounts behind vpns. The groups are small and everyone knows everyone so you’ll have a reputation beyond just being banned.

There’s also no global admins / thought police. Each group gets to decide on their own what kind of discourse is allowed (illegal content excepted). In a group chat your friends can discuss things which would have you banned from Facebook/etc. The platform won't push your content on others so independent group chats don't ruin the experience for other users.
Most of the copyrights nowadays are held by large conglomerates anyways and not artists, sure that's not a nuanced point of view but copyright isn't nuanced either
Black 23.1a1 – please help us test the 2023 stable style
While this might seem pedantic, is it actually illegal not to have a home?
English as a CFG
xdotool, definitely
program that required me 10000²² hours : firefox, thund' and gimp+blender
Also logging and ranching, combined with the lack of large predators like wolves, bears and wild cats has had a pretty large impact
> MIDI's issues in a notation context

I'm surprised MuseScore is attempting to piggyback on MIDI to store sheet music. That seems like trying to typeset a book using Teletext.
I tested with my 5 years old daughter:

* She knows Mikey and Minie, I was sure about that, but I asked her anyway what kind of animal they are. [Hi from Argentina. In Spanish(es-ar) it's not obvious that "Mikey Mouse" is a "ratón".] She likes them.

* Surprisingly, she knows Tom and Jerry, but she thinks it's a cat and two mice (??). I guess my brother show her a few cartoons (??), and in some of them Jerry has a friend (??).

* All the other are dead. They have been good characters.
I'm not a finance expert. But isn't the lender already making money on the mortgage by charging interest? That's the whole reason they can even sell the mortgage, right? Why would anyone buy a mortgage otherwise? They're purchasing a stream of interest payments, like a bond.

I think that's how mortgages were before the 1970s. The bank lent some money and accepted the payments. They didn't sell the mortgage to anyone.

Selling and securitizing mortgages is how 2008 happened. Maybe the old system was better in that way. Again I'm not an expert, so I don't know the side-effects of doing that.
Elon has a stalker and a member of his security team allegedly assaulted this stalker. I guess that is why a police report wasn’t filed by Elon’s team?

This is very unconnected to his private jet.
There is no line, stop burying your head in the sand by pretending there is.

It’s so incredibly stupid to think that there is just one dimension driving all political views and it’s stemming from the lens of the US two-party system sucking the oxygen out of the room.

Pick all of the policies you think defines a “left” party and we can go through one-by-one and find parties in some country that are considered right-wing that will share some of the same views.
Unfortunately not an option and will likely never happen. Nothing has been deleted since around 2005, when storage costs plummeted below the price of selling the data instead.
Hi guys, a good XMPP client for iPhone? like conversations.im?
Certainly uncontaminated by higher lifeforms.
I am literally responding to your comment about negative ROI over the last 20 years. I graduated college on 2003 so that describes my timeframe exactly.

If you aren't talking about genx then what is your 20 year comment about?
Apple Could Open Its App Store Without Opening Its App Store
If she were consistent about those values, she'd write a bill that tightens regulations on centralized exchanges instead of on individuals running validators in their bedrooms. Either her values aren't what you think, or she's put zero effort into learning anything about the technology she's trying to regulate.
"capital-gains surtax"

In the United States we have "long-term gains" which are taxed preferentially at much lower rates. How about we just stop doing that.

Also for carried interest.

Also also the "never mind about those taxes at all" stepped-up basis for your heirs when you die.

All of these things simply distort the overall market as people modify their plans to account for these tax breaks.

If you don't like to see higher taxes, then replace these distorting, selective tax-breaks with lower overall rates to make up the difference. Or if you like higher taxes then don't do that.

But for gosh sakes can't we please get rid of these behavior-distorting tax laws?
Not specifically - there are lists online and the games I remember playing a lot aren't on them, so my memory must have gone fuzzy over the last 35 years.

Here's a neat example, though the video on the page uses the MT-32 for music:
https://www.jamesfmackenzie.com/2019/06/19/atari-st-games-wi...
Knipex Pliers-Wrenches are the absolute BEST.

> Only downsides are price and they are not super low profile so you need a bit of room to turn in.

Pricey, but buy quality and cry once.

As for low profile, I actually find them nearly as thin as a typical crescent in terms of the handle; while the head may be same or thinner.

I recommend buying more than one size

https://www.knipex.com/products/pipe-wrenches-and-water-pump...
I have the Pine64 with Mobian. They have other form factors. It is barely, partially workable yet improving. Unfortunately more places are requiring an ios or android app to do business every year. So even if it does become workable, it probably won't be sufficient.
Harmful Edutech
I was recently asked: Which digital technologies could we get rid of
in higher education? Here's my thoughts.

(temporarily disabling js jumps the paywall, sorry for the inconvenience)
> Doctors don't support involuntary treatment because it's not effective.

I think there's a difference between making an informed decision to decline treatment versus not being in a state of mind that allows you to make any rational decisions. People on the street with mental faculties in a state of failure are not really able to make that choice, and treating someone in that state as if they're making a voluntary choice is farcical.
I am also trying to figure out what the average person would do differently with this information. It is cool and good, but I feel like if I wanted to experience any of these I would still go buy on Amazon Prime video or pull it up on Spotify or torrent. Is there a big change in consumer experience?
Software runs at native speed on your native filesystem. This is especially notable on macOS, where accessing any "mounted" file inside a Docker container uses a network filesystem. The docker filesystem situation can make software like Webpack or other compilers 100x slower when running inside a container on a macOS host. You also avoid UID/GID mapping between host and guest, weird permissions issues like compiler output owned by root, awkward port forwarding, and other little papercuts.
The younger crowd prefers vaping, this will just force tobacco companies to push eCigs
i suspect a lot of the super high PEs we're seeing has to do with the tendency to prefer capital gains over dividends, due to regulations incentivizing this.
Also NPR: Saying the BLM protests involved riots or looting is "misleading", because most of them were peaceful [1].

(570 riots over the course of 3 months breaks down to 190 riots a month. That’s 47 riots a week or 7 riots a day. See if they are so willing to ignore violence of a cause they dislike.)

Also also NPR regarding the Hunter Biden laptop: We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste our listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions [2]

Unlike the Pence statement on riots, which did rise to the level of significance that NPR considers worthy of reporting. So forgive me if I take their word on anything with a grain of salt.

[1] https://apps.npr.org/liveblogs/20201007-debate/#overwhelming...

[2] https://twitter.com/NPRpubliceditor/status/13192811012239400...
How am I supposed to talk to ppl on Tinder if I get 10k likes in a weekend?
But unless you are familiar with all the properties of MSG you still don't know which place may or may not allow entry.

If google sends you an email saying you may not use any services provided by google - that's one thing. But what about Youtube? Is that owned by Google or Alphabet? Does Google being upset with you actually mean that all of Alphabet properties are out of bounds?

How much of a business needs to be owned by a corporation before they can ban you from it? 51%? 20%? 5%?

Should you get a letter from each and every business individually?

This is a crazy path to go down that would lead to the fracture of society.
I don’t use Firefox much, but when I do the first thing I do is go to settings and uncheck “let Firefox install and run studies.”

It’s good they have that option. Even though they are to good guys, I find it creepy they would run studies on people without consent. Hopefully they don’t do creepy stuff like that on the fediverse, but honestly the whole thing with pocket makes me doubt their intentions. They seem to talk the talk, but then do creepy stuff in the background.
where can I input regex to excel? I really need that, last time I copied table to nopad++ then copy paste it back.
I don’t subscribe to so called woke gender ideology so I will be calling “non binary” people by their “assigned at birth” gender pronoun. It’s my freedom to do so and I refuse to change my core beliefs for someone’s own personal deviances.
100% agreed. Toxicity of social media comes from the "look at me!" and "I'm implicitly better than you" mentality. Most people have egos, which is fine and necessary, but social media gives free reign to let those with huge egos use their looks or material goods for attention seeking and any criticism is blocked or met with "haters gonna hate.

Seems like Mozilla is just hopping onto the decentralization/Mastodon bandwagon; where was Mozilla when Mastodon was a fledging new company?

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/official-mozilla-presence-on...

And never we forget that Mozilla talked about integrating moderations into their own browser...
Well, at least he does only have a single book about that, compared to his ~200 publications.
The list is deserving of scorn and ridicule, precisely because it precisely is ridiculous. The language will be enforced onto professors as they routinely crawl and scan their own domains [1]. American students are taking on enormous debts to pay for an ever increasingly size of administrative busy bodies who come up with nonsense like this to justify their existence.

[1]: https://itcommunity.stanford.edu/news/poc-it-2022-progress-a...
What are the “zero-sum” goods?

Land isn’t zero-sum. If an acre of land loses value, that doesn’t mean other acres must cumulatively raise by the same amount. Likewise, rises in value don’t need to be offset by losses elsewhere.

Sorry if that’s nitpicky, but you’re placing a lot of importance on the “zero-sum” portions of the economy.

The international currency market is zero-sum. If the dollar loses value, it must lose value against another currency, and that currency must rise.

Do you think currency will eventually restrain growth, despite being (mostly) created by fiat?
There's no reason we couldn't have had violin-style synths, for example -- continuously changing volume and pitch as the note plays, for example.

Or synth woodwinds that encoded not just fixed pitches (from the keys), but continuously changing airflow and breathiness.

You can come up with examples for pretty much every instrument, really. Imagine what you could accomplish with a synth guitar that allowed you to bend pitches.

If MIDI had supported features like that, we may very well have seen an explosion in creativity of different types of synthesizers, beyond just digital pianos and drum kits.

Fortunately we might actually see that now, with MIDI 2.0 [1]. A quote:

> This should mean music played on MIDI 2.0 instruments will feel more analog, and make it possible for non-keyboard instruments to work better with MIDI. Historically, guitar, violin, and trumpet players have had to learn play keys in order to better translate their work through MIDI. Now, hopefully, they will be able to play their instrument of choice as an input into MIDI-compatible recording software.

[1] https://qz.com/1788828/how-will-midi-2-0-change-music
> I disagree about your premise at multiple points, but I want to focus on just one point - In my experience, Functional Programming is a large enough of a technical reason to not choose Scala in a company of a reasonable size.

You say you disagree with my premise, yet you seem to be confirming the point I made. Your arguments revolve around difficulties with finding devs for a team and with training them to actually understand FP at a level that would allow them to untangle their algorithmic thinking from OOP. It's exactly what I said about the only proper reason to choose Java over Scala: team's lack of FP expertise. Other than that, my point still holds: type algebra and explicit nulls opt-in bring better quality software overall. And it does require FP expertise, not just awareness or vague familiarity with.

> otherwise your devs will go off the rails using Scala in ways that the team isn't prepared to learn

This also contributes to my initial point. But I'd like to know what are your examples of off-the-rails, as I've been to situations where a couple of folded traversals had been called similarly "too much" in a Scala codebase, but for someone writing Haskell it was just a regular application of a familiar pattern.

> Sure, you could hire someone who knew functional programming already and came from a background writing Haskell, but they were rare and usually commanded exorbitant salaries that made sure they were never in the equation to begin with.

This is a specific argument that could be made within your organisation. I don't know your budgets and the requested salaries by respective candidates, and you didn't clarify the level of expertise your teams were looking for, so I can't make an informed judgement about the merits of this argument and to what extent it could be applied onto the tech stack in general. I've been doing FP for a meaningful amount of time, mostly in Haskell, and the common theme over all these years has always been a visible shortage of FP positions compared to the number of capable candidates willing to compromise on their salary in exchange for an opportunity to use Haskell at their workplace. Many of them were instead compromising on Haskell in exchange for a regular Java-grade salary for writing Scala. And I've never heard of people commanding better salaries just for the fact of being able to write Scala instead of Java. Usually it was due to additional set of skills, like strong algorithmic training or extra years of business domain expertise, and these traits bring additional value to organisations, if they are able to utilize them within their teams.

> Especially when Java is not really a terrible choice in a large enough organization

It certainly isn't terrible, but it also is neither safer nor more productive. For a developer who has a good command of both paradigms, Scala would be a better choice on JVM.
This is news to me. Do you have more information about that?
There's a reason human cultures have always valued martyrs.
I don't really understand where they thought copaganda would get them, given the core users of the device are... Generally pretty anti-cop.
You also get sob stories about the children of a famous singer that just died in a plane accident at the top of their carrier.
Anker’s Eufy breaks its silence on security cam security
So you have to add code to debug it with #tap? I don’t care if the chain is unbroken: you have to CHANGE THE CODE YOU SHIPPED in order to properly debug it. That’s idiotic. And before you say “oh, this is just an exercise”, I can tell you from personal experience that I encounter this endlessly in prod code with both Python and Kotlin chained functional style garbage. It is often not debuggable without break-up and unrolling.
Related:

Being Glue - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25120504 - Nov 2020 (43 comments)

Being Glue - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19846720 - May 2019 (42 comments)
You agree to receive treatment, or you will not be released, and they get a court order rubber-stamped to say they can give you treatment without your consent.

I don't remember what happened after. ECT has that effect.
If you had to identify the eventgoer in advance for a non-transferable ticket, then she would have been banned for the same reason and no facial recognition would have been involved. Would that be okay, in some way this is not?
I was surprised to see WKRP in Cincinnati in the TV listings. It was my understanding that all the old music in those shows made them impossible to broadcast anymore, because (1) the copyright owners wanted too much money, and (2) for some of the music, it was impossible to find the owners.

Maybe they got past that, at least for some of the episodes.
Thanks, I didn't realize nix worked well on macOS..

That sounds like a nice solution when developing on macOS. Is there any benefit then on linux?

I prefer to dev in a linux VM for security sake anyways.
That's Mozilla for you.

Elon Musk bought Twitter so a "healthy social media alternative" is needed, one in which you should get "cancelled" if you disagree with the notion that "vociferous minorities" should be able to change the generally accepted meanings of words.

OMG that's Steve Texeira!! How did he go from being an evangelist and writing excellent books on the unmatched RAD IDE known as Delphi, to indulging in "Wokespeak" on behalf of Mozilla?
The ecosystem of GPIO hats for various hardware that can be controlled by a raspberry pi. It’s why you see many other SBCs include the 40 pin header connectors, and often even mechanical hole placement to help with mounting…, they are trying to pick up some small parts of this market.
I love R but can't use it at work :(

With just the tidyverse library (which includes dplyr), R can be very useful in a data analysis pipeline. It is great for data cleaning and aggregation, especially when a process needs to be done multiple times. It is much faster than excel/power query. I am an accountant in SaaS and spend a lot of my day waiting for excel/powerbi automations to refresh. Similar solutions in R/sql/python would be nearly instant. Also excel/powerbi automations are a bitch to troubleshoot, and are unnecessarily complex.

When following tidy principles, a framework designed by the tidyverse dev Hadley Wickham, R code can be very easy to interpret, similar to SQL. Additionally the R community has made libraries for everything, and I consider R a great general purpose language as well.
I second Miller - besides its extensive support for various formats, it is fast. If you ever have to deal with gigabyte-sized files, Miller will give noticeable speed ups versus jq et al.
This makes sense in terms of VC (not to mention broader crypto investors who got hung out to dry by SBF's ponzi scheme), but as far as employment is concerned I am not convinced that crypto represents anything like the marketshare of web startups in 2000.
The Feds are investigating after a school's library was ordered to remove books
ChannelLock makes good ones with tight tolerances, smooth adjustment and accurate measurements in metric and standard (one on each side). I often use them as a first attempt and if I need more torque I check the size they are set to when grabbing the correct combo wrench or socket.
You could simply reduce it on a go-forward basis, grandfathering in works that are currently covered by the 95 year term.

Not going to happen of course, regardless. But laws change all the time, and grandfather clauses generally make it a solved problem.
PG&E estimates 12-24 hours for power to be restored after quake [video]
Target Russia's capability, not it's intent
Tesla’s dropping share price takes valuation below ExxonMobil’s
AMZN is completely propped up by AWS and AWS growth is slowing.
Sounds about right. That's like $40K in late 90's money, when I was getting out of college, right before the dot-com bubble. My first job out of college as a junior engineer paid $45K. I had asked for $50K, which they gave me 6 months later. This was middle of no where east coast.
The main benefit of the Raspberry Pi in my opinion is the support. The documentation for the device is spectacular, and the community support is extremely good. Now, I don't feel this warrants paying $170 for the device, but when they are available at MSRP, this is quite the deal.
First there's a lot of content which isn't produced because of the restrictions, you just don't see it. Remixes, different takes into existing content.

Secondly and this is where the current system fails the hardest is that you have to preserve culture.

Most of the older niche content is actually preserved by piracy right now and would be gone otherwise. There's no way to preserve content in the current model, content is just created and then thrown away.
I could be inferring something the OP didn't intend - but I took their comment to indicate Mozilla should "stay in their lane" and focus on making an incredible web browser - not some side project/distraction that will inevitably fail.
I just got generic ones from amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09NQX2V19

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09Y3BSDPH

There's https://pen.tips if you want the 'proper' ones but I've been perfectly satisfied with the cheap stuff so far.
Even with todays valuations of FAANG stocks I can guarantee you that the standard new grad gets a better offer than you will statistically make starting your own company.
> There is a strong biological impetus to, a great value to her nation

Biological impetuses aside - what is a nation ? And why should any individual care about it more than one self

My countries will continue to exist whether I have kids or not
Wait, what have they done?
> As it is, the Obsidian sync takes a few minutes. And if you edit the file on another device before sync goes through, you’ll lose the changes from one device or the other.

Clearly we have had very different experiences. I have mainly markdown notes, PDFs, and screenshots and it syncs everything continuously as I work. As for "losing" the changes, I'll have to push back on that. You have full version history, so while you might have to look at an old version, you won't lose anything. There's certainly nothing unique to Obsidian with respect to conflict resolution. If version history isn't working, you'll have to talk to the developers because there's a serious bug.
Yes, with one caveat: without algorithmic feeds users tend to form natural circles just like in real life. This dramatically reduces toxicity. Just let people post whatever they want and follow whoever they want. If a social media company will not attempt to mix and promote random high engagement content, users will far less likely discover it by themselves and engage in toxic behavior.
Probably a Commodore ST, though.
The formation of Earth wouldn't have been the starting gun for alien life evolving somewhere other than Earth.
Makes me wonder what other things (that we don’t hear about publicly) are being done to try to bring Musk down.
If you like this kind of thing you should take a look at the suckerpinch channel on YouTube. The technical complexity and amount of effort spent on some of his projects is quite unbelievable, with no practical use other than displaying the crazy things you can do with computing.

Particularly Reverse Emulating the NES and Harder Drives are good examples of this.