skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I don’t think it’s a given that some form of Abrahamic religion would have inevitably become Islam-like and had the same trajectory. There were a lot of unique features of Muhammad that ending up having a major positive effect on the subsequent conquests. Not to mention the particular historical situation of the Byzantines and Persians that allowed for such expansion. If someone other than Muhammad had come a few decades earlier or later, there’s a good chance the outcome would have been different.

Otherwise yes certainly Islam is as diverse and variant as any other religion and its current iteration (in the Middle East, at least - India and Indonesia being different situations) is mostly a consequence of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
I wouldn't expect an SLA on a service without one.

This is like cogent/he drama
Features of Project Loom incorporated in JDK 21
I agree that "stopping in the middle of the street" should be discouraged. Certainly one solution is to remove the liability for continuing to drive. Another is to increase the liability (if insufficient) for stopping in the middle of the street.
It's "winning" personal user data with ease. It fits.
https://www.spaywall.com/search/https://www.sfchronicle.com/... Worked for me
In 2000 I lived in an apartment block in San Francisco.
There were SIX WebVan delivery trucks pulled up out front making deliveries at the same time to different people. It was clear they had not even started to generate the efficiencies they needed to succeed in that business.

Of course if they could have raised money like Uber has then .....
I think that HN itself also shadow flags submissions from a list of domains it doesn't like.

Try submitting a URL from the following domains, and it will be automatically flagged (but you can't see it's flagged unless you log out):

- archive.is
- watcher.guru
- stacker.news
- zerohedge.com
- freebeacon.com
- thefederalist.com
- breitbart.com
Good.

Hacker News isn't an open-ended political site for people to post weird propaganda.
"expired" meaning Dell arbitrarily decided that they didn't want to honor their warranty because of course they didn't. Bought as new but so what? Resale doesn't magically make their products any more or less crap.

If Amazon committed fraud here, Dell are the victims and can deal with it. But Dell have a reputation and it is deserved. Ring them up sometime to discuss it with them, go on, try talking to them about anything.

Why are you sticking up for a bazillion dollar company behaving badly?
For observing it at least, you can - you need to open a debugger for the browser rather than for the current page.

The process is roughly the same as inspecting the UI, you basically enable remote debugging and then launch the Browser Toolbox: https://superuser.com/questions/1608096/how-to-inspect-firef...

(this is also a great way to figure out what you need to do for a user-chrome CSS file, e.g. if you want to change how tabs appear beyond just theming. though using a user-chrome CSS file is unfortunately a minor pain in the ass.)

I had to switch it to "multi-process mode" to get network requests from extensions to show up, but that broadly makes sense.

e.g. here's ublock pulling a random block list that I clicked on to test: https://i.imgur.com/wBYbBM2.png

and here's Firefox itself updating the safe-browsing list in the background: https://i.imgur.com/JYxWwjW.png
Well, yes, many sites are banned on HN. Others are penalized (see e.g. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). None of this is secret, though we don't publish the lists themselves.

Edit: about 67k sites are banned on HN. Here's a random selection of 10 of them:

vodlockertv.com
biggboss.org
infoocode.com
newyorkpersonalinjuryattorneyblog.com
moringajuice.wordpress.com
surrogacymumbai.com
maximizedlivingdrlabrecque.com
radio.com
gossipcare.com
tecteem.com
Does this mean we have to go back to candles and lamps to get the same ambiance? Will YouTube ban videos for DIY homemade lightbulbs? So many questions.
It's an unloaded question. I want to know how the two are connected and according to whom.
And you don't see that as censorship?
The X is pronounced as “Shi”
Webvan was pushed into too many markets by their VCs. They had 3% market share in 30 cities, but needed 30% market share in 3 cities to be profitable. With customers too spread out, delivery gets too expensive. It was a good idea with a bad growth strategy.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that the pilots were operating under conflicting regulatory guidances.

Rather, I was pointing out that the international community of aviation regulators had established conflicting norms with regards to the requirement and prioritization of TCAS at the time of the incident.

The conflict in norms was a contributing factor to the incident discussed in the article, and in the aftermath of the incident, those norms were appropriately corrected. The mention of the FAA is relevant because their original guidance (TCAS guidance supersedes ATC guidance) was what the ICAO adopted in response to this incident.
And yet Azure has comically bad IPv6 support, so you can't even move (partially) away from IPv4 even if you wanted to. Besides, the cost of a v4 address is peanuts compared to the other cloud costs.
The difference is that HN is explicitly heavily moderated while Twitter pretends to be an equitable free speech platform.
Who benefits from this "fraud" you are imagining? How does that scenario play out in your head? "Ha! You think this costs us mere pennies of electricity, but actually our highest paid employees are personally spending hours getting it right, muahahaha."

Nobody gives a shit how you deliver the value, they care if their problem is solved and you care if the problem you're solving even exists and people are willing to pay.
How's archive.is "weird propaganda"?
So what? That's a private entity vs govt comparison? Why not look at CEO/entry level for every city out there?
This forum never said they’re a free speech haven.
Net neutrality was repealed in 2018.
https://archive.is/lIMw0
Is that pronounced like "Shitter"? Huh.
Think of the unexpected unknowns. The feet of your chairs having light sensors, each tile of a roof having its own ambient vibration monitors, a thermostat on every bookcase shelf, all self organising around the you GooFaceAI determines you to be.
Unfortunately not. All of my local government agencies - Police, Fire, DOT, Weather Service, Emergency Management updates, etc. are exclusively on twitter - they frequently post things there they don't even post to their own websites.
Public universities already label and report on administrative staff and overhead.

I'm not sure that I would call this micromanaging.

https://www.usnews.com/education/articles/one-culprit-in-ris...

https://www.ppic.org/publication/higher-education-in-califor...
While I understand their popularity and appreciate the far lower energy consumption, a part of me still wants incandescent bulbs back. They had a warm, inviting glow that’s entirely missing from LEDs
Cool idea, but the amount of knowledge needed to grow crops successfully doesn't really boil down to a 'how to' format. Are you trying to be organic? Did you get a soil test? What sort of pests are there in your area? How many hours of sun does your plot have?

Point being, there are lots of common skills and local knowledge.
Thank you! That's an excellent anecdatapoint.
Did you read the rest of your own post?
Author finds fake AI-generated books written under her name
I’ve lived in an apartment with all LED lighting for just over two years, and not a single light has ever gone out in my apartment.

In the apartment I had before with non LED lighting (not sure what it was specifically, I had about 25-30% of my lights fail within 18 months.
https://archive.is/rfErE
But these don’t just have local impact. They often entirely change the trajectory of history.

For example: what if Caesar has a son earlier in life and by the time he is killed, this son becomes his heir instead of Octavian? The son isn’t as clever as Octavian, he loses the civil war to Antony, who is far less capable of setting up the infrastructure of the empire. Rome collapses centuries earlier - or the Senate regains power.

None of this seems like it would lead to the same historical outcome.
China teases imminent exposé of seismic US spying scheme
I started wondering about the source website I linked and despite the lack of another site with all the information in one place I am not so sure I should have linked it based on the other "articles" on that website.

It's unprovable but feels like it was written by ChatGPT or assisted?

If a better source is found, feel free to either replace the link or delist this thread?
It isn't banned in comments - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., etc.

We probably banned it for submissions because we want original sources at the top level.
If true and intentional, then this is a strong move by Musk against his ideological opponents. Hard to believe he has the cognizance to recognize them as such but maybe he purged more of the 3-letter agency folks from X than it seemed.
I mean, a good test is to go to go to their website in another browser tab and click around. You're over-complicating this.
How big are we talking?
I have tried employing ChatGPT as a DM for a "single player" DnD game and it did a pretty good job, so I am waiting for an opportunity to use it in a real game)
Illegal miners in the Peruvian jungle would not be illegally mining in the Peruvian jungle if they had enough money and training to use one of those.
Would be nice if the lists were published though with a link to the list from the submission form.
I almost didn't believe OP, because it's so comically inept and petty. But, I can also confirm in some private testing there is a deliberate delay.
That's just an index.
It's planned obsolescence... there are parts in the drivers that if specified at a higher quality would last a lot longer. Cost of the additional quality would be a few cents.
I strongly doubt the warranty period expired from first sale. I strongly doubt there was a previous sale. More likely Dell screwed up their warranty database. But sure, Amazon suck very hard. Dell are at least as bad. Who do you talk to /when/ they make a mistake in their favour.

Much easier to tell people to f.off when they're not standing in front of you in your shop holding the crap goods. Amazon and Dell both push that with suppliers & customers.
I've got over 50 Philips Hue Color bulbs running with no failures since 2016 (so, 7 yrs now) along with between 35-50 FEIT Electric LED bulbs (great for affordable >90 CRI) and only a few of the FEITs have failed over the years. Perhaps it's true that the quality of your electrical service matters; the power in Chicago virtually never goes out.
Enshitification is different. It’s when companies destroy a product with hundreds of changes that prioritise
internal politics above what end users want.

This is something else - just the ego of one rich guy petulantly satisfying his inner demons.
It is probably not illegal in America. Would it be illegal in Europe? Because (at least w/r/t Threads) it is an anti-competitive practice?
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Agree/confirmed - just recorded a number of different nytimes urls that pass through t.co, all 4.7s+. various cnbc and google articles through t.co were ~130-200ms response time from t.co specifically (not total redirect->page load).
Thanks for the interesting data.

I was thinking mostly of the most competitive universities, which tend to be the ones with highest tuition. Few people are concerned the high cost of community colleges and related student debt.

It would be fascinating to see a scatter plot of college tuition vs acceptance rate.
Ok Chairman Mao. Maybe their first assignment can be to hunt down those sparrows.
https://archive.is/LdJ51
Lets say the number of actual black holes is even more - several orders more than what is even mentioned here.

Would it be enough to account for the "Dark Matter" conundrum ?
Exploring the design space of binary search trees
I started this project many years ago when I was coming up with ideas for immutable data structures for the PHP data structures extension [1]. I wanted to support access by position in a sorted set, which led to the idea of using binary search trees for both lists and sets. However, I did not expect the scope of this project to increase as much as it did.

The more I read about binary search trees, the more I thought about them, and so down the rabbit hole I went.
When you read everything you can find about a topic for several years, eventually you develop a deep enough understanding to compose new ideas from different sources.

This project is the result of many rejected ideas and countless experiments.
I tried my best to distill everything I consider important enough to keep, and will continue to develop other ideas as they come along.
I had no intention to implement anything other than weight-balanced strategies to support positional access, but when I read about rank-balanced trees I knew I had to take on the challenge to implement them.

I've been in contact with various authors along the way, specifically Bob Tarjan and Salvador Roura, but have otherwise not received any feedback yet.
Implementing all the algorithms was incredibly hard work, by far the hardest work I've ever done, so I hope that others may find value in their presentation.

There is still so much work that could be done, but there comes a time when working on something alone begins to yield diminishing returns. I hope to continue this project as an open-source collaborative effort, so please feel free to ask questions or suggest changes, however small.

[1] https://github.com/php-ds/ext-ds
Not just one but TWO impressive careers. She invented superscalar CPUs in her first career, was brutally fired by IBM for being trans, then rebooted her life in stealth from scratch, and not only invented but wrote the book on and taught VLSI design to a whole generation of designers, including industry giants like Guy L Steele and James H Clark (among many others).

She serves as incontrovertible proof of how utterly vile and wrong and morally and intellectually bankrupt the conservative transphobic bigots who abuse the technology Lynn invented to spread their hatred and mendacious political attacks are, who don't deserve to use any of the technology she created and shared for their hate mongering and bullying to destroy other people's lives that are none of their business.

IBM made a HUGE mistake firing her, but 52 years later finally sincerely turned the ship around, reformed, and apologized for their mistake and honored her.

How much longer will it take the rest of the transphobic assholes in the world, especially the Republican party and MAGA Cult who are divisively and diabolically trying to grab power by running this election on the abuse of trans and LGBTQA+ children and adults, even to the point of beclowning themselves by waging a pathetic losing Jihad against Mickey Mouse, to realize how fucking EVIL and WRONG they are, and finally shut the fuck up with the hate speech and whining about how Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity, and simply treating other human beings with respect, is so inconvenient for their chosen lifestyles of bible thumping, bigotry, insurrection, and hatred, to finally apologize for being such bullying sociopathic jackasses, and beg their make-believe gods and the rest of actual humanity for forgiveness.

IBM Issues an Apology for Firing a Transgender Woman

https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/events/ibm-a...

IBM Apologizes For Firing Computer Pioneer For Being Transgender...52 Years Later

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyalicandri/2020/11/18/ibm-...

This HR Executive of the Year is Transforming IBM

https://hrexecutive.com/this-hr-executive-of-the-year-is-tra...

52 Years Later, IBM Apologizes for Firing Transgender Woman

Lynn Conway was one of the company’s most promising young computer engineers but after confiding to supervisors that she was transgender, they fired her.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/21/business/lynn-conway-ibm-...

Column: IBM apologizes for firing a transgender pioneer, 52 years late

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-11-23/ibm-apolog...

IBM fired U-M professor Lynn Conway for coming out as trans in 1968. 52 years later, the company apologized

https://michigan.it.umich.edu/news/2020/12/02/ibm-fired-u-m-...

IBM fired U-M professor Lynn Conway for coming out as trans in 1968. 52 years later, the company apologized

At the University of Michigan’s 2018 Winter Commencement, Lynn Conway, professor emerita of electrical engineering and computer science, encouraged the graduating class to embrace changes and transitions as an inevitable part of their future adventures.

https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/ibm-fired-u-m-p...
I’d love something similar for indoor gardening. I have an apartment with great sun exposure but no yard to take advantage of it….
https://archive.is/7wV2m
I want to love it, but it’s weird. Zero guides for lemons or limes, 43 for tomatoes. Zero for Basil, 12 for Thai Basil.
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That's extremely slow..
A game like Press The Button, except there’s half AIs and half human players. The goal for each is to identify the others and airlock them off the ship. Constrain the tests in such a way that open chat using lewd language or whatever is impossible. I’d play that once or twice.
The word censorship has so many meanings that I have to ask what you mean by it before I can say whether I see it that way.

Is it censorship that the rules of chess say you can't poke someone's queen off the board? We're trying to play a particular game here.
I am probably 100% wrong, but isn't there something about how your police pension is based on your final three years of work?

There is an arrangement where the guys getting ready to retire get a ton of overtime to inflate their final three years of salary, so when their pension calculations are done, they get a big $$$ boost?

This is just what I heard, and I don't have anything to back this up...

Edit:

Retirement benefits: 3% of final compensation per year of service at age 58, with a maximum of 90% benefit based on years of service.

https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/careers/sworn-j....
The only complaint I have with LEDs is fixtures that don't allow adequate airflow. Heat buildup shortens their lifespan.

On the plus side, they work much better outdoors than CFLs do.
From this and other threads I am faced with the conclusion that Hacker News is shockingly pro-suicide. I want to present an alternative viewpoint, one which I thought was obvious, accepted and mainstream but which I am dismayed to find absent from these comments:

Suicide is the fatal symptom of a treatable disease. Death by suicide is no less tragic--and no more noble--than death by endocarditis, diabetic ketoacidosis, or a traffic collision.

If a loved one is killed by endocarditis, we do not criticize mourners' "somewhat a selfish point of view". If a loved one dies of acute diabetic ketoacidosis, we do not say "Did the author consider the fact that his friend was living in their own, personal dystopia?"

I cannot understand the mindset that views suicidal depression as unique among--or even absent from!--the set of deaths by disease. I find all these defenses of suicide to be perplexing and, frankly, revolting.

Suicide is not the conquest of autonomy over pain, but of pain over autonomy.
I mean like, which god do you need to control a Blackjack game? That must be a boring job for an omnipotent, omniscient divine being. Could you just ask a genie for an extra wish? Priapus could probably pull out some interesting stuff, if you know what I mean.
If Feynman were available it would be a colossal waste for him to be administrative.

Many regulations work fine - not regulating is what is breaking civilization down all the world and economy right now.
The problem isn't what government employees get paid by the government. It's what they get paid by "not the government".
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things." -- @dril
https://archive.is/oYhWC
It's not a DBT alternative if it's not SQL-oriented.
And how was the decision made to ban Federalist, but not say Guardian or The Daily Beast? Do you have any process in place to ensure that your political biases don't influence the list, or you don't care about that?
Isn’t this so much broader? And I think it’s a much underdiscussed driver of inflation, which might not even be showing up in statistics.

Before Uber you still had cabs that took you from place to place. The difference was you probably had to call them in advance of hail them on a street. But for slightly more convenience, you’re now paying somewhere well above 30-40% to a middleman.

Same with food pickup. Restaurants have to pay Grubhub 30-40% even for orders that are placed for pickup. Even if that’s not the case, their prices are adjusted to cover delivery through these apps and most restaurants tend to keep the same price for deliver, pick-up and in person dining. So pretty much all restaurant food now contains a 30-40% tax paid to middlemen.

The same is true for shopping on Amazon. I used to be able to search on Amazon and the top 10 results would pay Amazon a service fee if I bought from any of them. Today, the top 10 results are all sponsored ads, so they all pay a service fee for the actual purchase, but they also pay an additional middle man fee to basically be listed anywhere decent on Amazon’s results. Which is nothing more than a middle man tax for no benefit (in fact, the customer is worse off due to the lower quality of results).
Yikes. You don’t want anyone experienced to be running large transit systems? Who exactly would suffer in that case?
Seriously impressive, I'm 27 and I didn't know half the stuff you put in this guide.
Because the LARPing is why most security professionals do the job.
Corporations are working on corporate suffrage. Corporations are people, right? What's the diff?

Do imprisoned felons have the right to vote? Do they have a warden voting on their behalf?
they already told you they did tested it and you don't believe them.

what else could they say that would make you believe them?

you might as well just test it yourself like i did with time wget. it's not like you're going to believe anything anyone writes.
Do you think this is a website for hackers?