skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Domestic cats are some of the most specialized killing machines in nature. Everything is raw murder machine.
Massive muscle to weight ratio, optimized for extreme agility. 30mph top speed blows the doors off nearly anything it may encounter in nature. Tail allows for balance while running. Able to jump multiple times its own height. Able to fall a multiple of it's jump height. 20 built-in claws also act as tools to assist in movement and extreme climbing ability. Bite force enables additional attack vectors. Night vision. Ability to track small objects. Insane paw-eye coordination. Cats (big and small) are best predator.

All to sleep on your lap.

Edit: Also did I mention their incredible sense of smell and their built-in instinct to hide their tracks? Every. Single. Detail. Murder.
In case anyone else is confused why they don't see links for Flagged Submissions / Comments in your profile: it won't show up if your current count is 0 :)
> Manifest destiny is white supremacist (read: Nazi) bullshit, as is eugenics and space colonization

Are we really at such a point where all thoughts on colonization are exclusively the realm of Western imperialism? There have been plenty of massive human empires where white people weren't involved, and reducing colonization to white supremacy feels more like erasure than anything.
This all started when the dollar stopped being indexed on gold
Does that actually require journald to be running though. Following that code through to the actual check gets to the comment:

> The journal is fully and entirely up? If so, let's permit logging to it, if that's configured. If the journal is down, don't ever log to it, otherwise we might end up deadlocking ourselves as we might trigger an activation ourselves we can't fulfill.

I have never run in such a configuration, but based on this code, it sounds like there is explicit support for running without journald.
> The opposition argues that this is discriminatory and would favor richer voters

Not quite. They argue that the kind of voter ID requirements that are being passed in several states are discriminatory because they are not free of charge. Some are free of any direct fees, but the indirect costs are often substantial, for the reasons you note:

> If I understand their argument correctly, there is a non-zero cost to going to obtain these forms of identification that disproportionately impact the poor. You have to take off work, commute (potentially without a car or bus), pay a fee, be capable of understanding the instructions, etc.

Worse, some states that have passed such laws have also simultaneously taken steps to increase those indirect costs. E.g., under the guise of budget cutting reducing the number of offices that issue state IDs, and reducing the hours during which the remaining offices processes ID applications. The offices that get closed are disproportionately the ones that are nearest to the most minority and poor voters, who also happen to the the voters who are most likely to not already have the ID, and the reduced hours usually mean no evening or weekend hours meaning many have to take unpaid time off work to go apply for ID.

I forget which state it was, but in a lawsuit over their new ID law plaintiffs found a list the committee that drafted the law made which listed a bunch of different possible forms of ID that people had, and for each also listed for each what percent of voters had it and their party and racial demographics, sorted by how much that ID would favor white people of the majority party in that state, and the final approved IDs in the law were all the ones the ones that favored white majority party voters.

Here are a ton of references, many of which contain a zillion links to even more research on this:

https://www.projectvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/AMERI...

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2012/jul/11/eric-holde...

https://www.aclu.org/documents/oppose-voter-id-legislation-f...

https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/2018/Minority_Voting_Access...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/getting-a...

https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/11/4/7157037/us-voter-id-req...

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/07/644648955/for-older-voters-ge...

https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2014/10/16/well-actually-pretty-...

https://www.theregreview.org/2019/01/08/shapiro-moran-burden...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/10/heres-h...

https://scholars.org/contribution/high-cost-free-photo-voter...

https://now.tufts.edu/2018/01/23/proving-voter-id-laws-discr...
Yeah. Friend of mine has had her rent go up 25% over the last two years in DC.
Anyone notice interest rates only started increasing when wages started going up but not when housing costs went up first?
Also, with hundreds of legal variations, how can the police keep track of them all? Counterfeiting a plate wouldn't require a very exacting match, just close enough to fly under the radar.
Numerous individuals grapple with contradictory sentiments regarding their engagement with social media, yet persist in using it.

Hacker News isn't an exception in the realm of social media platforms subject to such considerations. It appears that a significant number within this community possess a certain blind spot, often exerting substantial effort to delineate why their favored social media stands apart in some manner from the rest.
On my old NVIDIA (never again) laptop, Flatpak left around 30GB of NVIDIA runtimes lying around. Each version approaches 1GB in size, and Flatpak will install updates for all versions of the driver you have ever installed. Downloading a few GBs just to update Firefox is just bloody annoying, even with cheap disk space and fast internet. Fixing it was easy enough, but it took figuring out what's going on, and requires regular maintenance (two things the target user for this project probably wouldn't know how to do).

The drivers also never work properly. I've attempted to use several official game flatpaks, and have run into various forms of crashes (including the entire system stalling).
Accidentally? none

Why tapping around that area? This a mobile problem? Desktop it doesn't seem to be in the area of being a problem
I try to use it last week to run 10 instances of curl against a webserver.

I was expecting something simple as 'parallel -j10 curl https://whatever' but couldnt find the right syntax in less time that took me to prepare a dirty shell script that did the same.
Tinfoil hats looking more appealing all the time.

I think people will want to get their minds read in order to use BCI effectively. The question will be, who has access to the data more than whether minds will be read if people want to effectively participate in society. As a modern American may view the Amish, the XR-enabled AI-enabled BCI-toting humans will view us in the future.
It's like the old debates abput what "object oriented" or "functional" programming means. We need a list of the major attributes of social media, and then tag each system with its attributes from the list.

Then we can discuss which attributes are good or bad and which attributes interact with some kind of synergy or opposition.
That really is a more honest and appropriate term for the behavior I'm describing.
I always go back and unflag them.

I checked the list in my profile, and there's a few submissions that, on second thought, maybe I should have been more generous with--but I can understand why I thought a flag was appropriate.

The only ones which I thought might have been accidents, I'm pretty sure I flagged because they were dupes. I do wish there was a separate button for dupes, but it would probably make things to cluttered.
Interesting opinions on OpenTF and potentially impacted projects
You should read up on Operation Condor.
Didn't see mention of Delaware's (in)famous black plates:

> Delaware is the only state that allows private manufacture of plates for legal registration purposes, and the only state to have retained the famed porcelain plates in the modern era.

> Delaware ... remains the only state with non-standard size plates in current use.

https://www.dmv.de.gov/About/history/index.shtml

Peek into the insanity:

https://www.dhptags.com/

https://www.lowdigittags.com/29.html

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2022/10/28/d...

https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/2019/06/10/delaware-i...
>> I love that a key point is that this drives inflation, instead of crazy inflation forcing people to look for higher paying jobs.

This type of argument makes it seem that workers are at fault for inflation. That isnt true. Workers are stuck in an inflation loop until inflation is tamed.

The inflation loop didnt start with greedy workers, it started with prices going up due to monetary policy...catalyzing the loop.
Combining AI and human expertise sounds like a robust approach. How do you balance the algorithmic recommendations with more 'human' relationship nuances?
Living in South Florida and I found these 2 methods to be efficient:

-The propane burning traps about ten mosquitoes a day. It's an expensive setup. The SkeeterVac is $600, and a $20 propane tank will last a bit less than a month.

-"Mosquito Dunks" or more specifically, BTI (Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis) has to be placed into standing water. Mosquitoes come to lay eggs that will die because of the BTI. I don't know how many it kills, but I've seen a demi-dozen of larvae in there at a time. Here I recommend going with the granules format as the chemical is powerful, and you don't need much of it for example if placed in a bucket. Better than having to deal with breaking down a big piece into smaller ones.
What is not a myth, though, is that if you think you have patched some bug or hole in a system library, think again, because flatpaks are a distro in your distro (old yo dawg meme slide follows), sometimes a few even. And their update cadence is not the same.

Yes, it means that sometimes they will be ahead on patches, why not.

So at the very least, two systems on your system. Given that there are hacks to share some of your fd.o stuff, let’s say one and a half.
The resolution doesn't change, but a 64x64px icon button doesn't need to be that big on a desktop.
"American workers are demanding the market pays them the market rate for their labor"

FTFY.
It's insane that flatseal isn't a native part of flatpak. Problems like you encountered mean that the packaging system is incomplete by default.
We need anti-trust, break up these companies into smaller competitors and give workers a chance to buy into the American dream again.
It can be read here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3NnrPPNPKBPY09jZ2dLUHZ0Njg
> As somebody from the "Global South", it's ridiculous to say that the average quality of work in top universities in, say, India, is on the same level as the average quality of work in top universities, in, say, the US.

I am not making this claim at all.

> So if you want to do that kind of research, you can't really stay in your home country.

I remain puzzled by this statement.

I could understand the argument if it were phrased like so: "The best science in field X is done in countries Y and Z; I want to be part of the cutting-edge top-level research; therefore, I want to go to country Y or Z". Or if it were phrased like this: "Best-paying jobs in field X are concentrated in countries Y and Z; I want to get a top-paying job; therefore, I want to go to country Y or Z". But your argument is structured differently. You are claiming that if you want to do research in field X; indeed, if you want to have a career in field X, you cannot stay in your home country. What I do not understand is whether there is any research in field X done in your home country? Are there any departments in any universities at all in your home country specialising in field X? They may be third-rate; but do they exist? If they exist, then there must be someone working there, right? If that is the case, you cannot very well make an argument that one cannot be a researcher in field X, or have a career in field X without leaving the country.
> Feels like you want to keep all options open.

Yeah, I've put 7 years and thousands of hours into it. I do want to keep my options open!

> loads of non-CAA pure GPL software never receive any contributions.

Yup, for several years before I had a CAA I received almost no contributions, except from people I had a direct personal relationship with. The CAA hasn't deterred people, in fact if you look at the timeline, I've gotten more contributors since I've put the CAA into place. (I'm sure it's not cause and effect, but still.)

> It is a barrier to contribute. I would not even bother trying to contribute.

I used to think that I would want any and all contributions to my project. But I've learned over time that, except for trivial changes, a PR from a new contributor is more effort than it's worth, by itself. I mean I can write code, and I do--lots of it. The real value in contributing is everything else: documentation, bugfixing, sincere attention on the problem. So I realized that I'm looking for repeat contributors, the ones who are going to invest in the project, and become active community members, maybe even maintainers. And the low-effort drive-by contributors who would be deterred by e.g. a CAA were never the contributors that were going to move the needle anyway.

In fact, and please correct me if I'm wrong, based on your general tone above, I'm guessing that you've never been an active contributor to any open source project, CLA/CAA or not. In which case, I consider the CAA to have been effective: you can feel self-righteous and I avoid the hassle.
I learned recently, if you have a lower back injury, the best way to sleep is in the fetal position with a pillow between your legs.

Sleeping on your back or side is great, but I want to sleep in a water tank Avatar style.
Australia is heading into a recession.
The Tempest machine at college was lucky to get 10 quarters a week. We had a little cabal of players, one would put the morning quarter it, get the right score, fire up the free 40 credits, and that would be all she wrote. We'd play it throughout the day.

For the unaware, the early Tempest machine left the factory with several cheat codes that were enabled when you got specific scores in the game. One of those scores granted 40 free credits on the game. How these code left the factory is a mystery to me. The fellow who operated the arcade machines at the Student Union was obviously frustrated, as one week he showed up and cranked all of the difficulty settings as high as they would go, perhaps hoping that would boost the revenues.

It was so interesting early on because it was not uncommon to just walk into an arcade and find a Tempest machine with the free credits. But, eventually, someone figured out how it worked, and the word got out.

The real sleeper of a code was the code that unlocked all of the levels. Like many games, Tempest would allow you to continue near where you left off if you continued playing. After the game, it would go into attract mode. If it went a full cycle of the attract mode, it would reset. This is why the level unlock code remained elusive for so long, as you had let the machine fully cycle in order to enable it (which nobody normally wanted to do).

When that code got out, the high score on every machine in town skyrocketed since the game could be started at the highest level (level 81, the Green level I think).

Outside the cheat codes, it was a fabulously satisfying game, from the gameplay to the sounds, to the pace. There was real nice hit when you hit the Super Zapper (which killed all the monsters), cleared the level, immediately started rushing through, while holding down the fire button to grind down the remains of the spike in your lane before you got thrown into space. The sights and sounds of that was just great.
I also found a lot of infuriating posts. So many people that don't belong here. I am however happy to see that there's almost nothing that didn't end up dead/demoted.
No. It's not a rule that doesn't get enforced.

Our reactor had plenty of rules. The NRC visits regularly and inspects your security among many other things.

I know graduate students from Iran in nuclear engineering on grants by the federal government who worked with the reactor. This is not a rule.

There are enough problems out there, we don't need to invent more.

These are the basic rules in case you're curious.

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/cfr/part073/p...
Second place seems to be missing from the site: https://duischoolnv.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Nevada-Au...
okay, now explain how those things are in any way related to what's going on
8MB QSPI RAM Expansion for RP2040 via SSI
For an app that runs on my Mac a monthly subscription does not make sense
If we do succeed in building high-speed, when we look back, we will see that a pivot to high-speed rail was also an essential tool for shaping the fate of mobility and our planet’s climate.
> Zotero

> both electron shells

Zotero is a XUL application, not Electron. The soon to be released version 7 is a major rewrite and is based on Firefox.

Zotero is one of those cruitual applications where Flatpak is nice. I want it to be self contained. I don't want anything messing it which could lose me weeks of research.
> Personally, I’m much more interested in how to get Excel and Photoshop on Linux rather than untrustworthy drive-by apps and games, so I don’t really care about sandboxing, permissions, portals, app stores, alternate runtimes or really any of the stuff Flatpak does.

Guess what Excel and Photoshop will want if they were to ever port their software to Linux.
The Canadian system for disability isn't much better... about the same. I grew up as a child of a single parent who was physically disabled and unable to work. I had to hold a job down on top of school from the beginning of high school onward. My grades suffered terribly and I couldn't get into university. My parent has been dependent on us our whole lives since then: poverty is forced on people in these situations and it becomes a vicious cycle.

The Canadian system has been systematically dismantled by the conservative movements for decades. Long term care was privatized and has been in a slow decline. I've been writing our ministers here for years urging them with solutions to fix the system. Meanwhile my Nan in her 90's, living with Type 1 diabetes, had to go hungry during the pandemic when they couldn't get workers who understood her dietary needs to prepare food she could actually eat. It's been a huge drain on her health in these years of her life and has left a terrible mark.

Definitely worth advocating for and joining movements to push for social programs and human rights. When everyone's quality of life improves so many other things are raised up with it.
I'm sure the people making decisions about interest rates did :)
vscode flatpack just didn't work for me - found a workaround for terminal not working, but CoPilot extension refused to authenticate. No issues with non-flatpack version :(.
I strongly encourage the curious to browse through : foundsf.org

It has a wealth of 19th and early 20th century history about San Francisco including some really fascinating tidbits like the buried statues of Sutro.
That's what always happened in Argentina. Government prints money so they have more to spend, but it's not without consequences. Then they blame businessmen for the rising prices, and uneducated voters believe them.

And now with the US media promoting insane ideas like 'modern monetary theory' it may become more common.
If you think HN is less fake than Facebook as far as personas goes that is probably more about your Facebook feed - HN is more homogeneous, certainly, but you don't become cultured because you've build a country club and everyone puts on a fancy accents inside.

On a side note, HN is the place person matters more than anywhere I can think of except for YouTube. Is it possible you feel like that because it's closer to your person/ingroup?
The #1 story on Hacker News at 2023:08:21T15:41Z is a 2021 discussion of Linux desktop packaging tools.

Hypothesis: HN story up-voters are heavily drawn from Free / Open Source Software folks interested in issues that were broadly discussed in "tech" two decades ago (Linux for the desktop!) and are much less broadly discussed today.
Rural Arkansas, Mosquito HQ checking in.

Dynatraps. Tougher than Toms TNT bait. Gotta have it all out there and ready to go when the season gets started - you don't want to fall behind.

You can also plant things to attract barn swallows and the like, but then you have to deal with them dive bombing you every time you go outside anywhere near their nests.
Same for me. I had really weird stuff to debug. Could not save from FF to /tmp for instance (and I really like that for downloads I should use immediately and can be removed).

I found Keepass to be a snap/flatpak once: so many extra layer of complexity for a passwrd manager? No way that's good for security.
A remarkable coincidence.
European beads were in Alaska pre-Columbus.

Still, active trade networks have meaning.
> Anti-pattern:

>

> 1. Motivation

> 2. Action

> 3. Results

> 4. Does not work

Action and discipline (the habit of doing the same action) beat motivation everytime. And yet you will find people on HN that will fight to death that motivation is enough or that motivation is the moving force of discipline. Up to redefining words if needed. I think it's because of the warped guilt trip of the saying "you didn't do it/achieve it because you weren't motivated enough" and the "entrepreneuship" spirit of the audience who needs to believe that they can succeed no matter what and motivation is the main factor because it's something fuzzy enough they can say they had it or hadn't when they fail/succeed and ignore the hard unpleasant things like hard work, luck, skills, talent, etc.
Well you can't have a conversation at a loud live show, unless you use a sign language, but even that has visual challenges.
> Yes, license plates are still made by cheap prison labor in most states. 80% of all license plates issued in the U.S. today were made by state prisoners, with only 12 states opting out of the practice. According to a 2022 ACLU report on prison labor in the U.S., many states offer no pay at all to prisoners, while the average hourly wage across the country was between 13 and 52 cents per hour

So slavery's not dead, I guess.
> setting breakpoints allows some sanity in the build and testing process otherwise you have an infinite scope for issues which of course would be pretty lucrative for a boutique agency.

Honestly, now that container queries are available, I see very little use for breakpoints. Container queries allow for easy reuse of components, and a truly fluid and responsive design.
Neither are snaps. The future, for regular daily use, are appimages. Much like MacOS dmgs, these are a "single" file (from an end user perspective) that you download, double click, and run. That's it. Ideally we'd see more work in this area. I am slowly trying to figure out how to automate builds for GUI apps and I am considering somehow settings up an inexpensive server to pull, package, and submit appimages to appimagehub. A crowdsourced effort would be cool. Imagine a distro where by default if you place apps in ~/Applications you can just execute them. Comes with risks, but having them "signed" by appimage a lot of it would be mitigated. Linux, while excellent as a desktop, and I am referring to the many awesome distros available, is really user friendly. Let's make it even more user friendly.
Agreed. Most (but not all) old people have trouble letting go of old ideas. I can't imagine old powerful people keeping old ideas alive for hundreds of years.
I could be wrong, but I don't believe HN relies on selling user data like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok does. That is what I meant by that. That dramatically changes the incentives and therefor the experience.