skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. There are tax rules around political groups providing money for campaigns. The IRS is therefore obligated to look into political groups and make sure they are on the up and up on taxes.

Under the Obama administration, the IRS used political keywords like "Occupy" and "Tea party" to make decisions about which groups to focus on, with limited resources. The IRS investigated both conservative and liberal political groups, with multiple investigations showing no evidence that the IRS sought to investigate more conservative groups than liberal, or of using the rules differently against conservative groups.

It's just another instance of conservatives arguing that fair treatment is oppression because they get caught by rules more. It's the same as how facebook and twitter had to kneecap their "Fake News" filters because it kept labeling conservative posts as fake news. Conservatives bitched about this claiming they are being targeted but nope, just falling afoul of the same rules.

Important to note that rules hitting one group more than others doesn't immediately signal the group is just bad actors. Consider poll screening tests from the jim crowe era. They consistently affected black people in worse ways, because it wasn't an honest and fair system, because it was designed to do so.

I have not been convinced that facebook and twitter were applying their rules unequally. If you interview Fake News barons, they tell you that they just make more money and have more success targeting conservatives, often claiming that liberals are more likely to point out their articles are low trust or "Fake news" or should be taken with a grain of salt.
If you have so many parameters that you need a URL that's over 2048 characters, you should probably be reminded that localStorage exists.
Improve infrastructure. Apparently they are trivially DDOSable by anyone renting a few servers and running git clone in a loop? That's a problem they should solve. And no, blocking by user agent is not adequate protection.
Apple had a design philosophy that a device should do one thing only. That is why the iPod was so amazingly successful. It was just a music player. No meeting planner or contacts list. Just played music.

This design simplified things and allowed each button to serve a distinct purpose.

With the iPhone, the design philosophy carried. The iPhone could change itself via running different apps. To switch between features you had a single giant button at the bottom. But each app should do one thing. So it was either a phone, calculator, GPS, or Rolodex. But never all at the same time. And never more than one thing on screen at the same time.

They started to get away from this, such as using a volume button to take a picture. Or displaying a video inside a window. I would argue overall it makes things more complicated.
How does:

> Either way, statistically, one of you will die this summer.

go together with:

> But you can take comfort in knowing that there were less than eight deaths per 10 million visits to national park sites between 2007 and 2018.

?

I'm confused. How many people were there in that room when the ranger said statistically one of them would die? Were they for some reason more statistically likely to die than the other visitors? What was the reason?
I simply don't think it matters. This isn't golang/react. Features, bugs and upgrades don't move with nearly the velocity of something like a large, opinionated library or language. But I rest my case.
> While we (you, me, most of HN) see smart TVs as an anti-feature, most of the public sees them as a huge feature.

There's a lot of truth here but the manufacturers skimp so much on hardware that they're making that easier to understand. When you buy a brand new Samsung 4K TV and it can't play >1080p without stuttering the value of an Apple TV is a lot easier to understand.

> Even if you can convince them that AppleTV can show them netflix you need to get past such insurmountable obstacles as "needing an HDMI cable" and "having two remotes" and "which input does the TV need to be on?" and "which remote do I use for the volume?"

This is incorrect for the last 3 (you need something like 2000s-era hardware not to auto-detect inputs or allow the player's remote to control the volume) and the first one is true but also quite familiar to most people and it's hard to buy one without some kind of “do you already have a cable?” prompt since the vendors all want to sell you one.
I've rejected offers to buy my domains for small amounts of money. Every possession has some monetary value, and often times that value is more than anyone else would pay for it. I'd sell my domains for the right way-too-high price if someone actually wanted to pay that much for them, I'd also defend them in court if someone tried to steal them from me.
Optimism in Web3
We are testing this on a map[0], it's fun. When tweeting the link, the tweet and its state is added to the map. Also, map stories are possible through Twitter threads. We just implemented a draw function and are working on an implementation for external geojsons.

[0] https://map.decarbnow.space
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Seems like a classic case of a company claiming to be a tech play that was just a thinly-veiled leveraged bet on asset prices.
How about genuinely-long delays between login attempts?
5 seconds slows down a bot, 15-30 seconds could make many login attacks unrealistic.

Also: OTP 2FA?
I didn’t care for Hateful Eight or Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. It’s always hard for me to decide whether Tarantino is exceptional or has the right people around him at the right time (which is also an exceptional quality). He has 4½ excellent movies (counting Kill Bill as 1) and a bunch of OK movies.
What do you think Schröder is?
This is exactly how Shel Kaphan (first eng @ Amazon) handled the state of a shopping cart in the mid 90s. Here is him discussing some of the pitfalls: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-talk/1995NovDec/020...
That was our hack for the coffee in the previous job. Company mandated timers coz people forgot to turn it off when leaving so what we did ? Obviously prepared it before leaving then timer started it around 8:50 and we got a bunch of fresh coffee in the morning and smell of coffee right from the door
For instance, business podcasters are domain experts and consultants in their field so what if we have them use a platform to connect with their listeners on a more personal level?

This might be a good way to create awareness to a wider demographic and leverage hosts to convert passive listeners into active clients. It would be great to bring a real impact on people's lives. What do you think?
>house fires caused 2,620 deaths over 5 years in the US

Your source says that was 2,620 per year further down in the article:

>House fires cause an average of 2,620 civilian deaths each year.

Given that the EU has a significantly higher population than the US (~500 million, the EU data may or may not have included the UK, vs ~330 million) the per capita statistics end up fairly close.
Customers are ultimately the problem here - not designers.

Customers want lots of features, and they want it at a cheap price. This has resulted in an arms race of every-more-poorly made devices that try to do more and more with less and less.

This is the problem. Demand. Not the designers. They're just working within the market that exists.

There is of course demand on the higher end price brackets as well, but that's a separate discussion. That makes up a minority of all sales in terms of volume.
Two things to try:

1. Outline the next thing you write, before you write it. It sounds like rewriting as you write is a problem. Outlining gets you out of that habit like few other things can. It forces you to focus on what you're trying to convey and who you want to address.

2. You didn't mention anything about you HN (or other media) use. If you're using that as a way to escape, it's time to stop.
Fastq file will be a little smaller than a bam file
Just curious what the "fire suppression system" is in practice, is it sprinklers or specific fire retardant materials (drywall, shingles etc) used. Also wondering what geo location you are in (in consideration of regional fire risks and codes).

Edit: would assume single/multiple egress points are tied to the human capacity limit for the building but am not an arch/civil engineer
Happy to report the full book can be borrowed on the Internet Archive. This can be found on page 92, as indicated in your link.

https://archive.org/details/cognitivepsychol00howa
> …do I just need to avoid public companies…

Pretty much. They’re beholden to their investors and modern day investors in public companies pretty much only care about next quarter’s results.

Your other options are private companies with long term game plans but I don’t know of many that aren’t looking to exit eventually as either a public company(back to your problem), or get acquired(also probably a public company)

There are small mom and pop companies that go on for years and never lay anyone off unless absolutely forced but they also tend to be at the lower end of the compensation band
RIP Cisco 4700 router “yoyo,” 1995-2023
Which was my original point, perhaps lost in translation.
It's not earth-shattering for theory, I can tell you that for sure. If you read the citations of the paper, you'll find that Das, Nöth and Dürr already proposed something similar in 2019 which was published in Phys. Rev. A, one of the most respected journals. What these authors are doing is basically to propose a refined (and possibly more general) experimental setup. Whether this actually works out in practice, or even represents a particularly good way to go about it, is beyond my fluency in this field; I would guess the practical effect is incremental at best.
I am really looking forward to AI that can help us solve hard biology and engineering issues (say nuclear reactor design, materials science) practically. Or an AI that will help solve coordination problems by telling us exactly where to compromise and how to negotiate so that everyone will agree to say relax zoning regulations. I know there are things like AlphaFold and probably lots of proprietary things in niche industries I'll never hear about because no mainstream media is going to cover that. Are there such examples?

I find the likes of ChatGPT wonderful, but in the end image and copy generation seems like a very first world/"content creator" use case that won't help us solve critical problems.
> I think we'll see TVs which have "swappable" OSes before we see smart-free TVs but I don't think either one is gonna happen in my lifetime.

There was already a thing doing it, didn't get popular.

But I'd definitely see the market for "just few HDMI inputs and a screen", especially for people that say already use Netflix from their PS5 or xbox
It reminds me of a chapter in Alex Pentland's book Social Physics where he looked at the performance of IIRC eToro traders and the degree to which ideas spread among traders and the collective returns on investment.

When there was extreme levels of connectivity and copying between traders collective returns went down because diversity of trading strategies went down, when there was too little connectivity the same thing happened as optimal strategies could not spread effectively.

The maximum returns were achieved somewhere in the middle when there was both room for individual new strategies to emerge but enough connectivity for good strategies to spread avoiding both a sort of herd dynamic and isolation.
There were also briefly D-VHSs and VCRs, so actually you don't even technically need DVDs to digitise your tapes...

...though if your D-VCR broke you would probably have had a harder time saving the D-VHS material than if it was still on VHS!
This got me curious. Best i could find was the CTIF (The International Association of Fire and Rescue Services) [1] and their annual report [2].

Table 1.2 shows a breakdown of fire deaths per 100 fires.
US 0.3
France, Germany 0.1
Greece, UK, Belgium 0.2
Poland, Denmark, Slovakia 0.4

So it's a bit of a mixed bag. The reported average was 0.5 (report didn't cover every country). Sadly Canada wasn't in the table.

Japan at 3.8 was a bit of a surprise.

1. https://ctif.org/world-fire-statistics
2. https://ctif.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/CTIF_Report27_E...
I think you see the same in physics. The extreme example is probably Einstein’s “On the electrodynamics of moving bodies” [1], where he laid out the special theory of relativity. It has some incredibly original ideas, and not a single reference. :)

1. https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/specrel.pdf
If I build a computer game using places and characters from one of the world say Ansalon, how much fee I need to pay WotC? Assuming I sell it on Steam for some paltry revenue.
US pressures Asian allies to join crusade against Chinese chipmakers
As the copyright holder Meta, its affiliates (e.g., Facebook) or their successors, can change the license for zstd at any time.

It is a BSD license, not GPL.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/zstd/dev/LICENSE
Well their new business model no longer has a restaurant; so closing for most people
I actually laughed out loud when I clicked the link and it was Keurig. K-cups rank right up there with Dyson imho. Yea, it kind of solves a problem, but mostly it's great marketing.

They created a problem people didn't realize they had, drove demand for a solution no one asked for, and charge a premium so you can create more waste per cup.

But, it's cheaper then stopping at Starbucks...
CFOs Ponder Their Pricing Power as the Economy Cools
I'll take that bet. No way, zero chance, does WotC manage to get an injunction (much less a decision) preventing Green Ronin or Goodman or anyone else from publishing their existing 5e-compatible content. It won't happen, period. No way is a court going to go there, for precisely the reason that it opens up the entire open source economy to ransom by cranky copyright holders.

Frankly I think you're being silly here, and hiding behind a technical argument with which I never engaged. I agree, FWIW, with your definitional argument. I just don't think it's particularly relevant for exactly the reasons in the GPL link you gave.
Which is just crazy to me. You can pay for police! In uniform! I’m in Peru at the moment and for how much more corrupt people in the US act like LATAM is, I’ve never seen a company here pay police to stand somewhere. But every Apple Store in SF I’ve been to has an officer or two in front when they’re open.
Very good news to hear. With recent energy problems being exposed via the war in Ukraine, nuclear power is increasingly our best option for cheap, abundant energy. Despite decades of misdirected "Green" propaganda, nuclear is the safest, most viable route to a carbon-free future, while renewables are just not ready to scale yet (let alone their massive footprint compared to nuclear). Just hope we can get these in the ground fast enough to make a difference.
Supreme Court declines to block WhatsApp lawsuit over NSO phone hacking
Didn't know Discord doesn't encrypt messages. How do you go about doing it then? If I send a message, wouldn't it automatically go to Discord's server?
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I maybe sidestepped the issue (because I use esm imports in my project)...I'm not sure if it's because i'm using webpack or if I'm misunderstanding the issue you're talking about.
To me Nespresso tastes like actual espresso, Keurig is pretty trashy unless you get really high-end pods. Maybe that's not saying much since I've only had Nespresso branded pods that are expensive so it's an occasional luxury for me.
Could prices actually go down for some products/services, due to lower input costs? Or is this basically a one-way ratchet?
FWIW, after a quick Google search, I think this may have been the original source.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/9bm3x0/ctrlz_binding/
This doesn't make sense.

The US can obviously build earthquake-proof concrete and steel skyscrapers, just look at the entire SF downtown. So if you can do that, why wouldn't you be able to build earthquake-proof midrise buildings out of concrete and steel?

When I lived in SF I was woken one night by an earthquake, the entire 42-story high-rise I was living in was swaying back and forth, but obviously didn't collapse.

Sure, I can see how a wooden construction is a cheaper way to make buildings earthquake-proof, but does it really cost that much to earthquake-proof a mid-rise? Or is it not economically feasible to build mid-rises out of anything but wood in the first place?
Such TVs will never exist, and people need to get used to that.

Customers care about price and features. A TV with "less" features has no market appeal, except to a very, very niche audience.

It also has far less power to collect user data, which means less profit as well.
Yeah, I mean at the end of the day if you really need extreme performance and/or offline capabilities (beyond what PWA can give) mobile is really the only way to go IMHO.
This is just more Biden veiled attack on fossil fuels pushing electric stoves and ovens. Fuck the Democrats I just bought a full on wood fired oven and stove from the Amish. My back up being a Propane stove oven and electric once I am fully photo voltaic off the grid.
I noticed the same thing when doing my Master's (graduated 2012, work in embedded debuggers), for which I read a heck of a lot of early papers, both the better and the worse (Sturgeon's Law is very real). My SWAG is that a lot of early CS papers were being written by people doing very serious programming; they often did a few years in industry (or they were doing very focused Physics coding) before coming back for the PhD. Too, they were not worried about working within the dominant operating system framework - such things didn't quite exist. So they could give things a fresh go by the simple virtue of starting out on a new computer.

I think the straight BS->PhD pipeline has introduced an "academic" bias, in the bad sense of the word. I also think that the dominance of Linux, Windows, etc have put blinkers on our research.

In any case, you can trace the evolution I describe in the journal https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1097024x which has been around for decades.
I did something similar in a simple whiteboarding app that I made a while back:

https://github.com/jncraton/box-line-text

The data representation could probably improve in terms of readability, but I'm happy with the way it provides a concise encoding while still including the text from the document directly:

https://box-line-text.netlify.app/#;c2121Hello;5321;c1341Hac...!
Simple drip machines are a marvel--I spend more on a month's supply of beans than I do on the maker, and have been getting about 5 years daily service out of each one. Technology Connections made a great video explaining how stupid/brilliant they are https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp9H0MO-qS8
AI Dungeon is not too bad on the latest model. https://character.ai has some that are decent.
This is disappointing, but not surprising. I don't play Magic anymore, but it's been clear for years that WotC is prioritizing profit over game health.
Yeah me too. I literally haven't even used the filters that came with the aeropress when I got it and I use mine every day.
Although most organ music played for liturgical or academic reasons is terrifyingly boring, there is a decent contingent of symphonic and "theatre" (yes -re) organ people who want something that moves us and maybe erodes some of the concrete work elsewhere in building.

Misc tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzpQHz2dGX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VN5DGw3OvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm_vvBuH2ts

Also, even some of the classical works from folks like Ravel, Liszt and particularly have some ball busters if played on a big machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdrwazpZvAQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3cZ-7-IoI
.

TLDR: the folks that want to hear organs sound good go find other people that want to hear organs sound good and we have conventions and listen to organs sounding good.
Rosneft and Gazprom each make way more money than Rosatom.
> Are you implying that by providing severance pay of 90 days he is both complying with the 60 day limit and the severance pay?

Yes

> He is legally required to provide back-pay for those 60 days

I agree, but I don't think severance is necessarily independent from pedantic point of view, and technically severance doesn't "have" to be anything - it's whatever he wants it to be as long as it's at least the 60 days. In this instance I believe he provided 90 day severance both to fulfill his legal obligation and also threw on another month for goodwill.
It might be because some popular bioinformatic tools support using gzipped data directly
You may want to read something like "Common misconceptions about Germany's energy transition"[0] for a fuller picture of the situation there. In particular, it points out that between 2002 and 2021:

"both hard and lignite [coal usage] decreased from 251.9 TWh to 146.5 TWh for a reduction of 109.4 TWh. So Germany reduced both coal and nuclear at the same time, coal did not grow, and the coal reduction was actually larger than the nuclear reduction."

[0] https://chadvesting.substack.com/p/common-misconceptions-abo...
web3 is a failure, please stop trying to make it a thing.
Have you seen gpl 2? In theory that might cover this case. But there’s a lot of reasons open source people don’t want certain code being used without constraints but allow it to be open sourced.
They were employees of the park, not random visitors.
> In my personal life experience with abusive people, I find it makes me want to be more in favor of unconditional help for others, not less.

This has nothing to do with conditional or conditional help, or help at all. You feel compelled to fool yourself into believing you're not being exploited, but you're the only one believing that nonsense. You're dealt with like the mark in a con, and not exercising any common sense does not make you more pious, just an easy mark without self esteem.

The people that leech off of you are not the ones who need it the most. They are just the ones that don't mind profiting from less than ethical and moral means.
And if you're a shop that does your automation with Python you might want to look at https://www.pyinvoke.org
Volts and amps are not independent values if you're applying them to the same resistance (you), and you cannot "boost voltage" using capacitors. A capacitor can only charge to the voltage that it is charged with.
Codon is very impressive, it feels a lot like Python without being slow like Python.

Don’t think of it as a Python compiler, it is its own language. (Esp. re choice of int == i64, this saves SO MUCH computation for the CPU.)

I will say though that I’m not sure where to use it yet, since it’s too immature for important projects and also aims at the “we need a nuclear bomb” level performance.
What is your definition for a "full business cycle"? Specifically the length? If you are going to define it as "I know it when I see it" then there's no room for a conversation here.