skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something I wonder is if there are any countries that have successfully managed reconstruction, and if so, how?

It recently struck me that the US approach and challenges addressing the aftermath are quite different than other colonial powers.

Following the end of slavery for other colonial powers, the former slaves and their decedents were separated from the parent nation state, allowing the Colonizer to move forward without really resolving the damage and injustice.

This means that in the US, we observe the long legacy of slavery as racial inequality between citizens of different race.

However, for a country like France, this is observed of the inequality between France and a former colony like Hati.

At least for me, this was not an obvious realization and I thought that the US was uniquely bad at post slavery reconstruction. Perhaps the US is doing the better than other former slave nations. To look at this through the lens of economics, Black Americans earn ~70% of the national average. Haitians earn ~5% of the French national average, adjusted for purchasing power.

This is not to say we can't to better, but I do think it is helpful to understand the scope of the project and challenge undertaken.
Nice. I didn't know. I thought my discovery was cool xD
And even worse, he[1] calls himself a professor!

[1] Well, not really, but journalists have.
Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?
With two posts on the front page on the revival of RSS I'm wondering what RRS Reader I should use.
What about the writer that "only writes it once"? Or a singer on an album that only sings it once?
One of the most "solution in search of a problem" I seen, and there are dozens of companies that already do this. Turns out onboarding is something companies don't really care about if they don't invest in it, there are a lot of places with very high turnover that make this moot.
Failed PIR Sensor Teardown
One of the problems compounding unusable UI that I've noticed is the trend to use as little text as possible.

I can understand why designers and even developers want to not use text: Handling multiple languages is annoying and getting people to read is impossible.

But you know what? I don't understand what that fucking black-and-white hieroglyph you pulled out of your ass five days ago fucking means.
Yes, it's similar. This one is also open source so can be self-hosted. JumpChat also has file share I see.
Anyone remember Jakob Nielsen and his usability heuristics:

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ten-usability-heuristics/

10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design

?
I'm not sure I need much persuasion. We have basically no ability to deal with international tragedy of the Commons problems like global warming
my guess that it's easier to spin-up during braking and it's less weight to carry during driving. I guess they went through a bunch of materials before they figure out price/performance/efficiency sweet point. Flywheel even enclosed in vacuum to minimize friction...
It's not quite what you're asking for, but Audible records a lot of Audible Originals which are all freely accessible to members without having to use any credits. Unfortunately most Audible Originals aren't very good.

I think Audible also offers an unlimited subscription for romance novels, although it's been a few years since I checked.
Trade is mutual. No way in hell it’s mutual right now wrt how social media and other businesses from America operate in China. It’s fair and square to boot TikTok.
I'd recommend just using Atom. It is as widely supported as RSS but far better specified so your readers will have a consistent result.

JSON Feed is fine but provides very little benefit and isn't as widely supported. Having multiple feed links for the same content will give some users analysis paralysis. (What we really need is an update to the auto-discovery spec that says "these two feeds have the exact same content, if you support both formats only show your preferred format to the user")

I wrote up a guide for my recommended RSS Best Practices which while not aimed at how to create your own feed contains enough information to do that.

https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/
Cheat.sh Gives You the Best Linux and Coding Cheat Sheets in Your Terminal
Interestingly, in Tolkien's letter to his publisher (142, in "The Letters of J.R.R. Tollkien", selected and edited by Humphrey Carpenter), "I did not mean the suggested revision [which he had sent them earlier] to be printed off; but it seems of have come out pretty well in the wash".
> Marvin Minsky's "Society of Mind" is a theoretical framework for understanding the nature of intelligence and how it arises from the interaction of simpler processes. The concept suggests that the mind is not a single entity, but rather a society of many different agents or processes that work together to produce intelligent behavior.

> The concept of a "Society of Mind" is still relevant today and has influenced a number of fields, including artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. It has also influenced the development of artificial intelligence systems that are designed to mimic the way the human mind works, using techniques such as artificial neural networks and machine learning.

> Overall, the concept of a "Society of Mind" continues to be an important and influential idea in the study of intelligence and the nature of the mind.

Or so at least, says ChatGPT when I asked it about this just now.
Intel Shakes Up Graphics Unit in Bid to Topple AMD and Nvidia
Basically, how VCs works too. And that's why we have to take their feedback carefully.
No. Any comment or series of comments that includes whining about down votes (which is what you did) deserves down votes and deserves little to no additional explanation. I include my own comment in this. I debated even writing it.

Maybe you should try to use your adult voice and try and engage people in a way that they would want to have a worthwhile conversation.

Instead, your attitude is pretty insulting at best.

You want people to engage in civil conversation? Check yourself first.
The quote is misleading. Tim Cook has been pushing AR as opposed to VR
This post is fucking catnip for me. I still believe society of mind is due for a huge resurgence, due to exactly what you're saying. Bottom-up composable skills will be a huge step forward, and free up GPT etc to be creative while getting the low-level stuff 100% correct (instead of screwing up arithmetic half the time)

The inverse side of the coin is emotions, meaningful relationships, and wisdom, which I think work in similar way but more diffuse. There can be a horny submodule that analyzes incoming content for sexual context, one for anger, fear, gratitude, etc. The same way an image processor convolves over pixels looking for edges and features, an emotional processor will operate over data looking for changes in relationships.

Feelings act like filters on incoming data, and are composed out of base physiological reactions. Like anger involves adrenaline, which increases pain tolerance and dampens conscious thought in favor of subconscious and instant reactions.
It’s not obvious to me that money is something where programmability (whatever that means) is beneficial.
There is an RSS feed link in the footer. There's also a "link" tag to tell your browser that there's an RSS feed available for the page.
One fact that still blows my mind is that into the 1990's, there were something like 12,000 known prokaryotic species, and microbiologists estimated anywhere from 100,000 to a million were still undiscovered, since they didn't like to grow in a Petri dish. But with the advent of PCR based techniques, that number grew to one trillion. Not only whole new phyla but two entire new branches of life (DPANN and CPR) were discovered in the early 2000's gold rush, and microbiology and mycology are still struggling with how to classify and organize these organisms, along with foundational questions like what 'known species' even means. It's a pretty cool time to follow those fields.

tl;dr we failed to notice 99.999% of life on Earth until about twenty years ago.
UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent
The Origins of Italian Food
Title changed to something less clickbait-y
Simple DIY air filter can be an effective way to filter out air pollutants
It's a beautiful example of the story (the "true account") bending to the gravity of desire.

(The ring is a desire singularity with 1000 gravities.)

That's a big deal. I mean, the story is basically everything to us. Our whole reality.

That the story is just a squishy thing that gets smashed around by desire is a very big important point. A shocking revelation.

In the context of LOTR, all the narrators are now untrustworthy.

Maybe things weren't so black and white.

I think that's the point that's getting underlined and belabored here.

Beware desire and its effects upon reality.

Also, LOTR is a history. History isn't what happened. It's a story about what happened. And it's a story written by the winners.

I think JRR Tolkien saw a lot of this in the war.
> None of this shows Lyft's business model is broken. In fact it shows it's working splendidly for Lyft.

Even if this is true, should this be celebrated even it comes at the expense of the > 99% of the population that doesn't work for Lyft as well as the thousands of drivers who are being exploited by their business practices? It is a relatively small minority of citizens who actually rely on these businesses for their day to day lives but their externalities are borne by all.

> The idea that taxi dispatchers could be more efficient, or as efficient, is ludicrous. Does nobody remember regularly waiting 30-60 minutes for a taxi from a dispatcher?

Even if you're right, this presupposes that it is a net benefit to have easily available taxis. It also seems to suggest that efficiency is best measured by latency between ordering a taxi and being picked up. Taxis are easily the least efficient form of transit. They are even worse than private vehicles because of the deadheading. Then there is the whole induced demand problem where they actually make traffic worse as people with the means opt out of more efficient mass transit so overall transit efficiency suffers even if it is (seemingly) more convenient for many users.

> In any case, yes surely Lyft could cut costs drastically in order to become more profitable, but it's also continuing to invest in growth as much as possible.

So they can try to hold the public hostage and mobilize their minority user base against any legislation that will rein in their excesses.
What prevents most of these kinds of ideas from happening is something super mundane; a person to see it through.

That’s it. You could definitely create this service, but you’d have to be very good at building a company in a market with big incumbents.

Maybe “pay creators more” is enough, or maybe consumers don’t really care where their money goes. You’d have to figure that out!

But are you willing to dedicate the next 3-5+ years of your life to this problem? Is anyone?
In the United States, the copyright on The Hobbit will last until 2033, 95 years after publication—but only the first edition. The second edition with the revised Gollum story was published in 1951, so it will remain copyrighted until 2047. Interestingly, this is still earlier than the first editions of The Lord of the Rings (which will expire in 2050 and 2051).

Tolkien died in 1973, so in life+50 countries, all of his works will expire in the same year, 2024—that is, unless the country chooses to extend by twenty years to life+70, as both Canada and New Zealand are doing next year.
So you can just stop paying and use the version you like forever.

Done. Everything else is meaningless.
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Bye bye! You are delusional if you believe everyone is a well-paid SWE
Don't bother with this stuff (or with "modern C") if you're just beginning to learn the language. You don't need it for small programs. No one is going to yell at you if your first effort isn't perfect. And no one is going to yell at you if you read the "wrong" book, or try things out in the "wrong" order. Pick any learning resource and get started now. You'll probably get distracted and move on to something else. Come back to it later or not.
Yeah, auto-discovery has fallen into the realm of obscure once browsers removed their RSS icons. I would recommend grabbing an extension that will add it back for you. Then you can see if a site has a feed just by glancing at your URL bar.

A few sites don't support it but most with feeds do. Including YouTube channel pages (but not videos) Wordpress, Tumblr, Blogger and more.
If he's such a flight risk he needs a 250m bond signed by multiple parties why not just keep him in jail? I don't get it.
> Uber still subsidizing the cost of the ride with VC money?

By definition, no, they are a public company.
Pet-services startup Skiptown raises $27M in funding, eyes expansion
I don't see a checkbox
What makes you imagine that continual reinvention of the wheel is in anyway counteracted?
Yes. Depends on the market, but in NYC you need fingerprints AND a drug test.

https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-03043
No, look at the examples on the page. It avoids typographic orphans, that lonely last word on its own line after a reflow. This is standard in desktop publishing (Word, InDesign, etc.) but CSS has very weak support for it... http://thenewcode.com/946/CSS-last-line-Controlling-Widows-a...

Doesn't work in headings, and not supported by Firefox. So you need JS to hack it.
Ukraine under Zelensky is almost completely an authoritarian state, all opposition is banned and either jailed or left the country. All mass media are under government control or left the country. Courts are under total government control, well known murderers are freed from prisons as they were murdering people that were against current government. Business under total control and either does what’s told or gets taken away. You don’t like something and dare to voice your concerns? Welcome to the frontlines or a nearby forest with a 2m digged hole! You think there’s no more corruption? Have you noticed that more and more governments are concerned with all the weapon systems smuggled to their countries from Ukraine? Yes, they steal provided weapons and sell it for profit. You sent water and food aid to Ukraine? Local authorities are selling it to locals. Ukraine is a dystopian society. And no, it’s not just a result of war, all the processes started years ago and were just rushed as soon as the war started.
Nobody anywhere gets very wealthy just by working hard. Otherwise the world would be filled with millionaire janitors.

> if you're using the excess to make yourself more money, rather than help improve other people's lives, you are being selfish at a level that makes you effectively indistinguishable from evil.

If you're using your business to create value for millions of people, you are in fact improving millions of lives by the amount of value created. If you capture a little bit of that value for yourself and become fantastically rich, good for you and good for the system that enabled this whole thing. Even better for you if you decide to give some of it away, but to call you evil if you don't? I suppose your own belt could be tightened a bit more so that you could give more away?

Other than what arises from rent-seeking behavior, profit is not inherently immoral.
Let’s suppose the author is correct that this new model is less efficient and more expensive to run than a traditional taxi dispatcher.

That doesn’t mean a traditional taxi dispatcher can survive in the modern world. Riders would not support a traditional taxi dispatch when they have the option to use a Lyft/Uber style of ride; it is way more convenient for the rider to use an app than a traditional taxi service.

Pre-Uber and Lyft, maybe a taxi service had better margins. That is no longer the case in this new market.

It doesn’t matter how efficient your business model is if customers don’t want to use your service.
Wonder whether vaccines and boosters designed to stimulate antiviral immunity eventually inhibit antibacterial immunity..
Seems like there's a group of people who want him to be obliterated and will be dissatisfied at every step if it isn't mounting his head on a pike. It's honestly one of the more disturbing parts of the story for me.
> At least to most I've spoken with on the subject (a few dozen, so informal straw poll), killing Google Reader turned people's opinion of Google from scrappy startup to untrustworthy behemoth.

You can add me to that informal poll. I moved to Feedly, but Google Reader was my go to for a whole lot of years. My opinion of Google changed the day they announced its demise. I am probably an outlier but the only way I want to consume content on the web is via RSS feeds. Allows me to curate what I see and if subscribed sites start delivering me poor content, I drop them from the feed list.
With ChatGPT we are crossing a threshold like the one from analogical to digital
Is node and npm required only for building the project, or also for running it?

In other words, can this run if I upload the html, js and other files to static hosting?
I'm really not sure what mean. You can literally take a look at the feed and see the most recent 4 entries: https://xkcd.com/atom.xml
RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer
My summary of the recent work in the rssCloud arena
Only as long as advertisers remain stupid.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651/subprimeattenti...
He has a constitutional right to it. He's presumed innocent in the eyes of the law.
> From the technical standpoint, an app to download/listen for audio is not a big feat.

With adequate DRM? It definitely is a big feat.

Just distributing the files, without any type of encryption, is far from trivial. The fact you link to Cloudflare demonstrates you know you can't host the servers yourself =)

Almost anything for ten users is trivial, doing it at scale is hard work.
If you're just beginning with C, it doesn't matter. If anything, it's better to be exposed to these unsafe practices and make mistakes with them in the very safe environment of your own home, where absolutely no one cares what you're doing.

K&R C is an excellent learning resource primarily because it's extremely strong pedagogically. Read K&R and then move onto something else later when you're done with it. If you eventually get a job doing something with C, then you'll learn on the job what's important to the job you're doing.
KeePassXC:

Local password database storage

No cloud account

No login
On my site having an account unlocks a bunch of useful features. Mainly, a version control system. Anyone trying to vandalize will have a harder time doing it than a 1 click reset by a user.

That’s how I ended up justifying it.
Fixating on an uptick in the occurrence of a low probability event (hate crimes) is missing the forest for the trees. It’s like analyzing the performance of a website under a major DDOS and fixating on the fact that 99th percentile response times went up, while ignoring that the site stayed up. It’s sloppy analysis.

America’s domestic response to 9/11 was nothing short of amazing. Had Muslims killed 3,000 people in India in a similar attack, Muslims would have been driven out of their homes en masse. You would be able to see the effects of that on aggregate statistics such as income, health, wealth, etc. 9/11 had no effect on the fact that American Muslims are among the most affluent groups in America, much more so than white Christians (which is an achievement unmatched in pretty much any other country).

As a brown guy with a Muslim name who moved to the south in 2002, I didn’t even notice any anti-Muslim reaction. What I noticed was there were suddenly all these movies about civil liberties, and the TSA was conspicuously searching white women at the security line. (Contrast with say Japan or China, where to this day I have a nice airport lady follow me around before boarding.) That is of course not to say there wasn’t none. But when shit goes truly goes sideways for a minority in a country everyone notices it.
I've listened to 10+ Sanderson books and all of them have have been through my local library (via Libby app). The only downside is that some have decently long wait times so you have to plan in advance.
> Evidently people prefer Lyft & Uber to taxi companies

Americans prefer taking an Lyft to not getting a taxi at all due to taxi number medallion cap. Most place did not have the problem Lyft and Uber solved. I.e. circumvent medallion shortages.
Nope on all modern CPUs (X86 and ARM) this is 64 bytes and has been since a looong time...
Oh, right. A tiny "RSS" in dark grey type on a light grey background at the bottom of what looked like an infinite scroll.
I don't think there is any "internet consensus" on crypto, and never has been. Have you seen any of the HN threads on it? It's been a very contentious issue for a long time.
Same. I am glad of that too. I loved it and probably wouldn’t have if the social aspect was in your face.
Wait, if the demand-based "surge" pricing doesn't go to the driver, to incentivize driving in periods where more drivers are needed to meet demand, which was always what the line was...
Keepass.
Get on parallel economy and others and take all your business and run away!
Feedbro extension on Firefox
Agree and that would be the result of a lot of development.
> If the way things are before was better, why did we end in the place we are now?

There's a simple (potential) answer: market distortion through large investments that are gradually being spent down.
pro-tip, you can convert your audible aax files to m4b with ffmpeg! you need to determine your key which is like a 6 character key, and fairly easy to figure out how to find.
For anyone who is not aware, in the US you sometimes have to put up bail money to get out of jail because you are a flight risk or there is a danger you will commit further crimes (assuming you are guilty which is at that point unproven). There are services that do this as a bond, called a bail bond.

You typically don't put up the full amount, maybe 5-10%. The rest of the risk of you not showing up for your trial is assumed by the bail-bondsman or some other intermediary. Since people usually show up it is a good business.

As an aside, the problem with this system-- like a lot of the US justice system-- is that it favors people with wealth.
> You still have to remember what it is that you signed. Unless you are saying it is a challenge/response thing. In which case you have to know what public key they have.

You say that like it is a problem? Like I said, you could easily and securely get away with a single private key, so there isn't really any guesswork here. Certainly remembering usernames for hundreds of sites would be worse.

And if you want a different key pair for your porn, you can do that and it is on you to remember which one to use, same as usernames and passwords.

> a compromised private key is complete game over

Yeah, just like a compromised password manager is. Can't really do much about that.
Hard to say. It's definitely more expensive to send emails, yes. But the upside is well worth it IMO.

For example, some services allow you to send content at a specific time based on audience's timezone. This increases open rate.

Or you can choose to resend the same email to audience who haven't opened the first time.

This could boost sales.

I'm not sure RSS can achieve that (there might be solution I don't know about)
> group of people who want him to be obliterated and will be dissatisfied at every step if it doesn't result in his head on a pike

He’s a fraudster who was content evading justice in the Bahamas for years to come. Of course there is popular desire for retribution, even beyond that which exists and continues to build against crypto at large.