skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are presenting your own bias and opinions - which is fine, everyone is biased and has opinions, but you're smuggling them as objective moral truths about the universe. Sorry, it doesn't work like that. People absolutely do not agree on what objective moral truths there are, or even if they actually exist in the universe.

>Scientifically, the only trait we've found these people have in common is that they're all low empathy, dark triad types, sociopaths, etc. That is to say, to climb to the top, like in the royal courts of old, the system tends to choose not those with the most merit, but those who are the most ruthless and dishonest socially.

There is no "scientifically" here. It's peoples opinions and self-reported views. Cultural contexts, human experiences, personality traits, opinions, feelings, views are highly variable throughout the world are are nowhere near deterministic. Science is about determinism and discovering objective truths about the natural universe. Frankly this is not science, and is an abuse of the term.
Mullvad is an NSA honeypot? Got any sources on that?
From what number?
Right, I'm sure they had the entire force of hundreds of officers looking into this...

And while you're correct that the article you linked is a bullshit waste of time, it probably represents around .005% of the forces allotted time in a year.

There is no big gotcha here, other than the reality that politics is a part of policing.
About the give-away-for-free aspect I was also wondering. Do they maybe configure their dns servers as default upstream and hope many people keep the defaults? DNS is one of the best technologies to do data mining and sell the data. I guess it's also why all those easy to remember dns servers like 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 exist. Google and Cloudflare for sure don't do it just to be nice.

Disclaimer: adguard claims not to sell any customer data.
Childhood me is envious of childhood you. I had heard about the internet, but didn't get any real access til around when you were already ircopping.
> And kidnapping is kidnapping. According to this logic, imprisonment is kidnapping,

MW definition:

"to seize and detain or carry away by unlawful force or fraud and often with a demand for ransom"

So no: Lawful imprisonment is not kidnapping.
Hopefully, this is a precursor to them getting out of this space entirely. My fear is that they'll use their economic power to dominate this space and make it impossible for me to avoid using them in one way or another.
Just about every category in your chart shows a reversal from a downward trend before 2019 into an upward trend from 2019 onward. The precipitous and unusual drop at the end of the axis reflects a lack of data.

Just about every kind of crime is up in Portland as well over 2018 numbers, with homicides almost quadrupling 3 years later.

The “both sides” should be considered, because Portland isn’t a war-zone like the far right would portray it as, but it’s significantly worse than it used to be with no reversal in sight. There are worse places to live in the US today, but I’m not off-base for wanting safety and local quality of life to improve rather than decline when compared to previous years.

And sure, the next thing to blame is the pandemic recovery. We all faced drastic changes over the last few years, but objectively some of our cities (like Portland where I live) are not recovering as well or at all compared to national trends.

And as for Portland, most of our deteriorating trends started before the pandemic. 2020-2022 just accelerated their trajectories.
Animal Crossing gave me PTSD for this painting.
Where I live wild fires are almost certainly the collision of two ingredients: drought and alcohol consumption.
Out of your examples there is like 3 over 100m MAU all other are negligible. Try to tell your peers you prefer "all manner of IRC clients". But regardless, don't you think an app used by 100m+ people should be regulated in this way? Can elderly or disabled persons choose what messenger they want to use to connect to most people? And don't tell "AI will solve it", the industry will not want these interfaces to be simple, they want to maximise profits. Black patterns should be discouraged.
If you already have a job, another degree won't do much. Focus on the job.
Same here. ZNC on Debian (apt install znc) on an Entrywan instance.

The freenode debacle impacted a handful of my favorite channels. #tcl is noticably quieter and a couple others are still trying to decide whether they're an official channel or not (this affects #channel vs ##channel naming). I'd bet that the number of active users has dropped but I don't have any emperical evidence.

If anyone is considering ZNC, here are a couple suggestions to change to the default config:

1. AllowWeb = false (only enable the web interface if you need it)

2. For each channel, add Buffer = 10000 so that you can have history for more than a day or two (the default is quite small)

3. Add these two lines:

LoadModule = chansaver
LoadModule = clearbufferonmsg

to get better history tracking and avoid duplicate messages.
John Oliver covered this issue last year as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHMDjc7qJ8
It's not uncommon to see aol.com email addresses in the wild, so this makes some sense. They're also pinging Yahoo! and those email addresses are also common.
Chocolate brand largely focused around child labor and exploitation in chocolate production: https://tonyschocolonely.com/us/en/our-mission
The most straightforward way to fully use the network without trusting us at all would be to have your identity backed by a did:web, and run your own PDS. From there your posts will be indexed by our appView and you can see them in the app.
If you still don't trust our AppView to show you the right thing, you can definitely run your own (its a little hefty and requires indexing the whole network).
Beyond that, if you don't trust our relay to feed your AppView, you can run your own and have it scrape all the PDSs (the endpoints for this are open on each individual PDS).
At that point the app experience for you should be roughly equivalent (depending on how you choose to apply moderation actions) without using any of our infrastructure. You would still be able to interact with everyone, all your followers can still see your posts, and no normal users would notice you werent on the same servers as them.
I thought it was weird IBM didn't mention quantum computing to win the buzzword bingo, but it's at the end.
real estate in canada is so expensive that i think it will ironically cause the jobs to become worthless, and this is the only comeuppance that will bring the housing prices back down is when people give up on living there
> terrible healthcare

that's funny because they sure love to rub their free healthcare in Americans' faces often
Anytime people talk about failing western economies, I find it easy to make a "you should see the other guy!" argument. We dont have > 500 million people at risk of starving to death in the next 10-15 years, and were not at risk for total energy collapse. Were not trying to gaslight the world that we are not looting all of the fish in their seas due to impending food source collapse. Were in horrible shape but compared to most of the major economies of the world, were relatively o.k.

This does not mean things are o.k. in the USA, or that we dont need to fix things. Its just that were not the ones that truly need to panic, "collapse" in the West is different than in the old world, just like "poverty" in the USA is radically different than what it means on most of the world.
Show HN: Mojo CSS - The Atomic CSS Framework
Guardian, December 2023:

> The wealth tax contemplated by New Zealand Labour would have required couples to pay an annual levy of 1.5% on any assets they held over a $10m threshold. The estimated $3.8bn in revenue would have funded income-tax cuts for the vast majority of Kiwis. Labour’s potential coalition partners, the Greens and the indigenous-led Te Pāti Māori, ran on similar platforms.

> Plus the relentless attack on my hard earned savings by a grifter government.

$150,000 a year if you own $20 million, $0 if they somehow attacked you all the way to a pitiful $10 million, and in return tax cuts for those doing worse than you, and they did not get elected.

I’m not seeing the problem.
I got my glinet gl-axt1800 mainly for the adguard support out of the box, as a way to keep my smart tv experience sane. Works pretty well.
whyrusleeping answered this ably. They are part of the Bluesky team but aren't hiding the ball.

You can't do this today on the main network, no. Apparently they'll be "rolling out an experimental early version of federation" sometime later this month.

As for credibility on that timeline, the only major missed deadline they've had that I can recall was on making posts visible to those without an account. It was slated for (IIRC) late November/early December 2023 and launched December 21, 2023. I believe they overhauled the frontend as part of that work and it delayed things.

Also, they have already blessed one alternative DID method (`did:web`) and are open to slowly expanding that set (https://atproto.com/specs/did).
We also have options that are unpopular/seem bad right now but may not in the future, like solar geoengineering via releasing specific compounds into the atmospheric.

Something like that could also likely be achieved, or at least put into motion, by a single desperate nation.
Is there a way to build permanent housing in parts of California that are prone to fires even with controlled burns? Even controlled fires pose a risk to habitation; if you were a semi-nomadic tribe (like the former residents before Americans brought western "Reason" and domestication to the west coast), you could move everyone out of the area to be burned, and then come back X many months/years later when wildlife and vegetation returned.

If, on the other hand, the area to be burned has "invested capital" and houses and land on it--essentially, private property, which has this strange quality of fixity even in the face of something as destructive as the earth (which never fails to dissolve it), how would you guarantee, without incredibly high insurance premiums, that people's houses wouldn't burn down.

And even if people are willing to pay the premiums, they would do so knowing that the government might decide, almost randomly (to them), to burn a chunk of forest right next to their house. They'd get fair warning, sure, but who wants to own a house that might burn down in 10 years because the state decides that its too much of a risk to have that patch of land burn naturally?
I totally get it, the same thing happens to me. I get horrible anxiety when I overdo it. You are likely over-doing it. Even a puff of the "new" stuff is too much for me.

I'll also point out that:

1. TONS of people have undiagnosed anxiety disorders, and blaming it on smoking a plant years go is neither scientific or productive.

2. If you are consistently experiencing anxiety, there are a TON of resources you can tap into. Even outside of medication, there is CBT and mindfulness that can keep you in the moment and prevent you from spinning out.
Total conjecture: 1. US banks do not face nearly as diverse a set of applicants, and 2. are only required to hold the loan for 5 years.

1. It is very common in Canada for a person with wealth acquired outside the country to apply for a home loan. At the time I was approved as a guarantor for a home loan for over half a million CAD, I had only been in the country for 2 years, and had no credit history with any Canadian institution (out of laziness I just was added to my wife's accounts as a signer and cardholder when I moved). They accepted copies of my American credit history and bank statements, but had no real way to verify their truth. In the US, I don't think that (relatively) wealthy immigrants wanting a home loan are nearly as common. Richmond, BC is a great example of this: avg home price is 1.5mm and 60% of the residents are immigrants.

2. Canadian mortgages are refinanced every five years, traditionally (it is possible to get a longer term, but very uncommon). Combine this with the fact that Canadian real estate has ALWAYS gone up (until now), and financing a home really wasn't a risky thing. If a bank didn't like a customer, they could refuse to refinance after 5 years. If a bank foreclosed, they were basically guaranteed to be made whole.
At the very least include a legend so we know they mean
And it is not only the variety of pieces, but also that the number of colors has exploded. Lego is becoming more like Playmobil, with the advantage that you have extra fun putting your sets together, and with the disadvantage that they will disintegrate and be hard to put together again.

I find myself "helping" my kids keep their built sets whole after playing with them, as once the sets become pieces it is too tedious/frustrating for the kids to find all the pieces to put them back together again amongst the pile. Also because the manuals are very much step by step, it is very clear what piece you need for the next 1 step, but not what you need for the next 10 steps. So searching ahead is not so easy for the kids.

But regardless of all my opinions, the kids are huge fans of lego. I have also noticed that as the sets are much larger, it is quite nice to buy a set second hand, build it once and then sell it again. I found out there are even people renting out the top sets for like 10€/week. So these sets are more like puzzles to me, where the joy is in building them. Such a contrast with when I was a kid; I never kept my sets built, I was always building my own designs.

Recently my kids got something called plusplus. A 3d building block where all blocks are identical (shaped like ++) and in limited colors. They were having fun building their own designs from the start. Limitations really spark creativity
I would argue that the center has a hard time keeping hold of the loudest people's minds. Most people are closer to the center then social media would have you believe.
Reminds me of becoming a magician (2018): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25024132
... btw. are you sure that only 7 people applied for that job? Because there are a lot of job announcements on LinkedIn which just won't show the number of applicants correctly in case there's an application link outside of LinkedIn for applying, meaning the application doesn't take place within LinkedIn. In that case, you'll get the question by LinkedIn if you have applied for the job, which most people just won't click. I'm seeing this all the time.

But still good point that there might be promoted jobs and non-promoted ones, maybe it's worth creating an own job scraper.
What is old german / high german / low german?
When humanity is still here in 2124 I wonder if there will be a Church of Climate Change that still prophesies the inevitable doomsday.
I remember that time and I too appreciate what the different browsers contributed feature-wise, but you’re missing the big picture.

In late 1995, Netscape released a browser that provided investors a comprehensive proof-of-concept online platform that was billed as the operating system for the Internet and they were being offered an opportunity to get in on the ground floor.

JavaScript and CSS didn’t matter. Investors were looking at SSL for eCommerce, Java applets, plugins, VRML, RealAudio, etc.

Netscape stood out because nobody else was selling a comprehensive online platform with a compelling and plausible vision.

The World Wide Web became something because a crap load of money was invested into developing browsers.

It wouldn’t have happened on its own to this degree and none of those browsers were on their way to becoming a household name.
Oh wow. Didn't realize that. I was a big fan of the big too when it launched.
Similar: "Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38491826
111 points 67 days ago
Interesting, especially the Conclusion section.
Here's an example of a Python program whose halting behavior -- if run on a hypothetical Python interpreter with infinite RAM and the ability to make use of it -- is currently unknown. It looks for counterexamples to the 3n+1 conjecture, and it tries every integer to see if it's a counterexample.

start = i = 1
visited = []
while True:
if i in visited:
if 1 not in visited:
break
else:
print(start, visited)
visited = []
start += 1
i = start
continue
visited.append(i)
if i % 2:
i = 3*i + 1
else:
i //= 2

On an actual computer's Python interpreter, I believe this will eventually halt with a MemoryError exception (although I'm not at all sure that you can actually run it long enough to hit that, as it will probably take many years!), failing to resolve the mathematical question. That potential for the MemoryError is why it matters whether your model has infinite memory or not!

(You can make a considerably more memory-efficient version of this which should be able to search much further before hitting a MemoryError, but I don't expect it changes the ultimate fate of the program when run on a real physical computer.)
Mergers are a different thing, though. In this case, it also impacts the EU - and you can't just say we won't merge in the EU but will merge in the US, doesn't make sense.

A more analogues example would be e.g. if the EU would have said "Hey Adobe, if you launch this feature in the US, you can't do business in the EU".

> China has penalized American companies for activities involving Americans in America.

What are you referring to?

> Many countries have declared that they have jurisdiction over crimes against humanity committed any time, anywhere, by anyone.

This is a whole different topic, stop moving the goal posts.
> I think the Canadian mortgages linked to Chinese accounts will likely all be paid.

This is a "heads, I win", "tails, you lose" type of scam. The mortgage holders are all judgement proof. They have no income or assets to go after. So if the housing market crashes, the banks have no recourse.

It's the same as taking out a mortgage and instead of buying a house, you go to the casino and bet double or nothing. Sure, the intention to pay back is there. But it is contingent on the investment performing, and the bank is taking on unknown risks.
>In a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, Carlson said he wanted to do the interview because "Americans have a right to know all they can about a war they are implicated in".

For some reason no link to the video [0].

[0]: https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1754939251257475555?s=20
Nah dude, you are plain wrong. The truth is that Lego has so much variety, they make an experience for everyone.

They have sets with multiple builds and more flexibility. They’ve got stuff for adults who want a pretty object in their house that they built. They have Lego Friends for the girly girls. They have every licensed property imaginable for people who are into that. They have Minecraft which has more build flexibility of being voxel themed in the first place. They sell classic bins with assorted parts. They have Duplo for toddlers. They have train sets for train people. They have roller coasters and “fast” sets. They have a robot/programming product. They have construction and technic. They have car sets for people who like model cars. They have city and creator sets for people who like to build realistic model towns and worlds. They have space and aviation stuff. They have products created by fans that are voted on by their fans. They have a custom model set builder.

They literally make everything. You can get whatever experience you want, including all the old experiences.
"Your cheapness means that you're more employable than someone with 10y+ experience who'll expect 150k+ salaries."

I have 10+yoe and my salary is cheap (<$100k). The future still looks shakey.
So do I drink my verification can before or after brushing?
To think how many things occurred during 1250 to 1860. All that progress was made during the little ice age.
Calm down grandad, the benevolent cloud demands tooth data and it will have its data.
I COMPLETELY admit that I have a technology bias, but every time I see a project like this I wonder "Why Zookeeper and not etcd?" etcd has repeatedly proven itself capable of handling large scales of traffic and yet is trivial to administer in comparison.
May not be heating up knives, rather, sheathing up knives, putting them away. Spell check error.
We have a natural drive to procreate. It's hard to resist that drive when the other option is "die alone"
"Shipped dumb by default" is enticing as a legal requirement.

Have a colorful switch to enable it, whatever.

But poor security posture out of the box, for a questionably-supported, poorly-developed, long-lived physical device seems important enough to mandate slight one-time inconvenience.

In the future, this bullshit is going to be looked back at like default passwords on ISP WAPs.
> Mainframes are unbelievably powerful, feature-full, and cost-effective.

I really doubt they are any more powerful than the best x86 rack servers. Their featurefulness is super dated. They are definitely not cost effective (good luck buying it from IBM without a huge contract).

I pity the company that gets into mainframes today. Does that even exist?

It's a proprietary nightmare.
> fiber to the premises from both incumbent and independent carriers is becoming very common, even in rural areas.

That was the goal. Google wanted to popularize ultra high speed connections. They never wanted to be the ISP for the entire US.

Opinions are my own.
Beyond Blood Type: Genomics Can Show What You're Made of (2016)
I've had enough horse shit from the parent company. I sure af ain't trusting them with my healthcare.
Absolutely! Some people seem to find that correlation to be inconvenient and/or threatening.
It's essentially a very large single clocked machine.
> trans people in the replies to everything

Oh thank god I'm not crazy and not the only one. I genuinely don't understand what either broke these people or what propaganda/troll bot network is responsible but the replies randomly ranting about trans people in threads that neither involve an actual trans person in the conversation nor are about anything even remotely related to lgbt issues is baffling.
These two points seem related;

* The assumption that it’s v1 and will only get better seems to miss the physics and battery limitations

* Are the latest iPhones or iPads really that much better than the first versions

Batteries are one of the few things aside from the camera and screen resolution where things are substantially and obviously better from a decade ago. The iPhone 5S was released a decade ago - it had a 1,560mah battery that weighed ~40g and got you 10 hours of video playback at 1136-by-640 resolution. The iPhone 15 Pro has a 3,300 mah battery that weighs about the same and provides over 20 hours of playback at 2556‑by‑1179 resolution.

Similar improvements int he AVP's batteries would be a huge boon.
As also a swede I find some keys are forgotten in the swedish layout. The letters aren't in our alphabet but that does not mean we don't use ü, é, à and such. And I find no way of doing dead keys in Thumb-key. Maybe there will be more donations to fuel some additions to Thumb-key now thanks to MessagEase sudden rentseeking.

Will definitely donate, I'm not pro subscription. Especially not this way, locking in users by waiting for them to learn your keyboard layout and then lock the keyboard behind a paywall.
The issue is not new. I am of East Asian heritage and live in Canada. Several people asked me causally why I went to school and had a regular job. They explained that with the "Chinese money" I should not compete for jobs with folks who really needed the money.

Smh...
Apple also sold the Apple Watch Edition. It was painfully slow, and had a list price up to $27,000 based on options.

I think you underestimate peoples' willingness to throw money at early versions of Apple hardware.
Where are the new AI jobs? Just ask AI