skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spend quite a lot of time around conservative people due to my hobbies, and I'd dare say a good amount of the people I meet could be considered semi-radical in their beliefs; at the very least, they are hardline and structured in their ideologies. I am not a conservative person, but I am very tolerant of their viewpoints and have spent a lot of time in conversation with them, helping them see my views and learning to understand theirs; in short, I feel confident in approaching those of the "opposite side" (totally a misnomer, but the best way to put it currently).

However, everything I saw on the front page of that website is worse than I've heard even the most drunken, politically minded conservatives that I have met. The beliefs espoused on the front page of that site, keeping in mind this is not even "fringe" for that community, are all things that would elicit immediate removal from any other community that I am a part of; some of that is because of optics, some of it is because of the demographics (PoC, Religion).

I do not desire to engage in rhetoric with someone who photoshops a Nazi SS uniform onto their profile picture and calls for the eradication, in whole or in part, of an ethnic group (this is the definition of genocide). I am fully in agreement with the idea that, on a level playing field, even one whose beliefs are dangerous can be made to feel empathetic and see different views; however, the community of that website seems to be acting entirely in bad faith when it comes to discussion.

I do not desire to participate in a public forum full of bad actors and those debating in bad faith. This says to me that those in that forum are entrenched in their beliefs, and use it as an escape from debate; I, too, have these spaces, and this site for one is even one of those for me.

The act of engaging with people who self identify as Nazis and Race Realists is one of extreme exhaustion and endless rhetorical debate, subjective to extreme attempts of trolling and fallacious bad-faithed arguments. This is what Gab has showed itself to be for me. If you have a different experience there, feel free to point it out to me.

All of this is ignoring the foundation upon which the platform was created on, which has its roots here.
> risk of an overthrow of the city government

That's got to be a very slim chance. There's already Chinese troops in Hong Kong, and have been since handover. The change in tone was clear and noted in the handover ceremony itself. It's not going to be uncontrolled unrest. They already sent in riot police, tear gas and rubber bullets against not-rioting protesters. A real attempt to overthrow or coup would be quelled long before it was successful. So far more likely more riot police or a Tiananmen type event than a coup. To global outrage perhaps, but the West just kept on giving more trade and manufacturing after all the others.

> it may also ignite pro-democracy activism in the rest of China

That seems unlikely too, given how hard news of HK, some history and other activism is censored and firewalled in mainland China. I have no idea how much is "known" but not spoken of, nor how generally or what unofficial networks there are. Waking up sentiment in Taiwan would be the last thing they sought though, so it's a pretty clear misstep regardless of mainland.

Logic and common sense isn't always prominent in international relations, as seen everywhere from Brexit to US and China. Decades of the West not caring two hoots, or even barely officially mentioning, what oversteps they are making in HK, Tibet or Xinjiang may have given president-for-life Xi the impression he can mostly do as he likes. South Africa got years of international sanctions, trade and sport embargoes, post-Tiananmen China got a few years of minor sanctions, then ever more Western manufacturing. The US barely kept sanctions up for two years. I'm not surprised Xi could end up thinking he gets near carte blanche. I'm more surprised you think we might sanction hard this time, when so much more depends on Chinese manufacturing, even if the president did prove willing.

Yet as you say it could escalate far into unknown and globally damaging consequences if sentiment and confidence tips too far. So some people there are starting to talk of leaving again... We'll see.
I love that companies will make it hard to expense a $50 meal but they will gladly let you book an hour meeting with 20 high-paid developers or even let you directly ping 200,000 people which must cost the company many thousands of dollars.
Is it the look of hand drawn you're after or is that you feel it will be easier to just draw with your hand? If it's the former you could use something like inkscape to draw the diagrams as SVGs and then use rough.js [1] to render them in a hand drawn way.

[1] https://roughjs.com/
Mind blowing that a majority of the people might win a democratic election.

Its all hyperbole overshadowing the root problem - first past the post non-proportional elections are hugely undemocratic. You need proportional legislatures where you have both multiple winners per race for better proportional distribution and alternate votes to first past the post regardless of what they are - STV, ranked choice, IRV, etc. Anything is better than what we have now.
No where did I condone shooting or state it was a preferred method of dealing with people in rural areas.

What I am cautioning some people about is living in southern AZ (and I am sure TX) there are specific dangers and police are sometimes over an hour away. ( most of the time at least 30 minutes)

Drug runners and coyotes do operate out here and if you interact with someone who lives in an area like this they see that stuff.

Following your GPS and ending up in a wash you shouldnt be in can create a situation where a landowner, who knows police arent coming anytime soon to protect him, can be a bit nervous.

Most people have guns in their trucks out here too.

It is not the same as a city but nowhere did I say folks out in the country are gunning to shoot someone.

I did say be careful. Not all of the news about bad stuff on the border is dramatized.

Edit

Not to mention you might run into the drug runner or coyote who is already not following laws
« Let them die, or at least never use them for passenger travel anymore » is what they said for McDonnell Douglas (DC-9, DC-10 and MD-11 must represent half of Air Crash Investigation episodes), the company lost a lot of value.

So Boeing bought it.
Genode on SeL4 – IPC and Virtual Memory
OneNote still feels like Microsoft's best kept secret. It is a simple solution to the common problem of taking notes. I'm convinced one of my previous bosses got several promotions just because he used OneNote to keep track of notes.
it is Friday evening in South Asia
Why is paying another company better than getting employees and paying them the same or even less money?!

When did this madness start?
It's already become neigh impossible to find the game when it's been buried under all the fake news.
No company has ever gone out of business because of piracy. How is adobe still going in that case? I doubt the average user of photoshop was willing to drop hundreds of dollars to purchase a software license off them over the years.

If someone is willing to pirate one game no matter the cost, then they are very likely to pirate all games they play. That doesn't translate into lost sales, they are stopping people who have no interest in making a purchase to begin with.

From the music industry to software industry, you have to ask, are big companies trying to protect their revenue, or profit? I find it hard to sympathize with companies that are disappointed with making only tens to hundreds of millions in profit. Exponential growth is not realistic, it means more monopolies over products and services.
At my workplace we were told SPOF was too negative, so one of the engineers changed it to SPOS. Single Point Of Success.
Purely speaking comparatively to Hong Kong's economic size, not that China isn't at the peak of a bubble, or couldn't tip into deep recession. Are recessions even allowed in the Chinese system? Even the deepest depression wouldn't put the imbalance back to 1980s levels, and if it were that deep it would no doubt be causing crisis in HK and elsewhere too.
I moved from evernote to onenote earlier this year.
It was easy to move all my stuff (i was never a heavy user) using the tool onenote provides for the purpose.
I have no complaints. I moved because I felt guilty/insecure being a free user of evernote.
Onenote doesn't give you the guilt trip and it's got that Microsoft permanence about it.
It wasn't the business that was the problem, it was the product. Eventually, Evernote became insane cluttered, to the point where it was preventing me from doing things. I wished they had markdown support in like 2009, they still don't have it.
Yes, and he's making the point that it manages to work. And that perhaps your expectation should be the same for a chat client as for an email client. Which may or may not be a valid point.
Audiobooks and podcasts are the go-to for those seasons of life.
Scabies Means Misery. This Pill Can End It
Probably Teams. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/security-com...
Scrawl-canvas - Rewriting my HTML5 canvas library from scratch
On the other hand, the lists haven't removed ad / tracker blocking for sites that block ad block users. I still see "disable adblock to view this site" occasionally. I think leaving rules in place that result in blocked access to sites, but letting through Google tracking scripts on every page because it results in the same would be a huge misjudgment on the part of the list maintainers.
So oil tankers can apparently carry some 300000 tons. Three or four oil tankers full would then be enough storage space for the onsite water. Couldn't we fill some tankers and have them release the water far away from any fishing grounds?
TBH in the tech industry I would expect this to be more than 20%
I love sushi, but gave it up about 2 years ago for this exact reason. We were at the Eiffel Tower for lunch (part of a tour) and they served us a raw beef concoction. I tried it, and spent the entire flight back to the US extremely ill (I'll spare you the details). When I commented that I would never eat raw beef again, my wife asked me how that was different from sushi.... wise woman.
Organic farming aids honeybee colony health
Apparently it's real common amongst university students for holding their entire collection of notes.
And without proper mailing-list-moderation, that too can cause email storms. No one blames "the genius who decided to put everyone in one mailing list" when that happens.

The real fail here isn't putting everyone in one channel. The real fail is not using/providing proper admin tools
Announcing Flare: Make opening incidents stress free
The mass conscription armies of the early 20th century were truly enormous, and survive today only in massively dictatorial states like Eritrea and North Korea or in democratic "fortress states" under extreme security pressure like Israel and South Korea. So for example, with about a sixth of the population of the US, South Korea has half as many tanks and and a larger combined active + reserve force. This is while spending a tenth of the US military budget.

This last figure illustrates the real character of the US military - it is an imperial/expeditionary force, with enormous amounts of cash spent both on maintaining an overseas presence and on the logistical capabilities required to deploy the remainder overseas on short notice. Most other countries build their militaries to fight in or near their own territories, and so get much more combat power per dollar.
"I don't think what we call capitalism as it exists today (on the national/international) level is an upper bound optimal level of resource allocation, just the local maxima/cleanest dirty shirt/etc"

Maybe? Probably. I don't see how you could 'fix' it though. Sure you could find a better local maxima. As i say, it seems to me to be an inherent feature.
Sure, here you go: https://pastebin.com/iXzscHW6
You can even configure DOSBox to boot FreeDOS instead of using its built in "DOS" environment.
Amazon Dominates Logistics
"Everything is a file". Except ioctl. Except mmap. Except the shell makes it a huge pain in the ass to hook up arbitrary graphs of streams between processes.
I now have Firefox Preview, Firefox Focus, and Firefox, on my Android phone. I'm not really clear what the strategy is, and future deliverable? I read that Firefox Focus development has stopped, and Firefox Preview will become Firefox on Android. But is Firefox Preview a whole new thing or is it based on what's been learned about Focus? Or?

Also, it's kinda odd but I always have Twitter not fully loading on Firefox (on Android), where Firefox Focus always works fine. Typical is it hangs with spinners, if I reload it'll say "something went wrong" and the in-line retry/reload button doesn't work, same error, but reloading the whole page sometimes works. So far I haven't had this problem with Preview.
When you've been so completely re-intermediated by the platforms you operate on, the assumption that you are an independent contractor no longer holds.
For ages, I ran unrealircd [1] and anope [2] services. One could put TheLounge [3] (web front end with redis) in front of it for persistence. Not as easy as inspire to set up, but rock solid and feature rich.

[1] - https://www.unrealircd.org/

[2] - https://www.anope.org/

[3] - https://thelounge.chat/
Burnout in IT can be like boiling a frog. One can get involved in larger and larger projects, then architecture, and then find themselves part of an on-call group that tries to keep production systems running. Pretty soon one is working excessive hours monitoring systems, driving projects, and also responding to production issues 24x7.

If it happens gradually enough, working twelve hours a day and being called repeatedly during evenings and weekends can feel normal. The high cost on one's health, social life, and family life can be extreme and quite dangerous.
I still hate that anyone can add anyone to a channel - it's not an "invite", it's just global "add to room" privileges.

In general I find Slack not very concerned with your own ability to control your experience (no ignore user feature, can be added to rooms, can be added to rooms that then get pinged with @channel and your notifications start blowing up, etc).

This may be 'expected' in a small company where of course everyone should talk to everyone, but for larger companies and the plethora of various open-source or interest-based communities now using Slack, it's not so good.
More like damned if do commit a bunch of civil violations, damned if you don't because you're still an untrustworthy agency.
> Hence, a card reader fits the dongle definition and it should be part of any laptop...

Which card reader? SD? Micro SD? SD and Micro SD? Any of the half-dozen other standards that some cameras still use?
Not to mention ClickHouse
Here's how you could probably prove it.

If you're a victim of this software and you come across a photo of you created using it, then you could run the original clothed image through the same app.

If they produce exactly the same results, it's obviously a fake image created by this app, not a genuine nude image of you.
In Linux, I prefer using Dosemu instead of DOSBox to run old DOS software.

Dosemu requires you provide the OS so I use FreeDOS.
"Kinda makes me think that a lot of Unicorn style world domination or nothing, result in some business orotundities being lost if those are the only two options."

I think a lot of companies are doomed because of that attitude. Companies with high valuations like Slack, Github and others can't just keep a nice business going but they have to expand like crazy to justify their valuation. And most of them end up converting a very good core product into a big mess.
Maine Becomes First State to Ban Styrofoam Food Containers
Reward Yourself Every Day. Just Not for Writing
You can't ever really get rid of the roads, you can only downsize them. Even if everyone uses public transit, you need some way of transporting goods and cargo, and the only way currently of doing that within a municipality or to most final destinations is by truck. Whether you're moving a shipping container full of stuff to a retail store from the train terminal, or you're packing up someone's home and moving their furniture to a new apartment, it always goes by truck, and trucks need roads.

But if we could get rid of cars, we could make the roads a lot narrower.
When it did its show HN I asked their support team a question; they acknowledged the question, said they would get back to me, and today I'm still waiting.

I have left bosses that don't deliver on promises, I'm not going to hire one.
IRC is a protocol.

The features you're listing is server/client dependent.
You're thinking of Sahil Lavingia, CEO of Gumroad.
Is this a mixup? Please elaborate if you have more information, I’ve never heard of this but I’m interested.
Aka more garbage that can be skipped.
In what world is it going to be "the same or even less money" to hire one or two sysadmins on a full-time basis than paying for a Slack subscription?
Let's hope it doesn't go into maintenance mode before this feature is released: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GLXVND-O...

Not sure if I understand correctly, but the absence of this is what has prevented Nvidia's proprietary drivers from supporting GPU switching without having to restart the X server session.
Nowhere in my comment did I present a dichotomy. Actually, I went out of my way to avoid a dichotomy.

Beyond that, my argument, more simply, is the following:

1. Apple has a set of philosophies and priorities in design. Within these, repairability is a lower priority than Vice and some customers would prefer.

2. From those priorities comes expertise and processes that result in the creation of new products and entirely new product categories.

3. Apple has seen success unlike any other company from those resultant products. Not just successful, but the most successful ever. No other company has replicated some of those products.

4. Given the above, Apple sees no reason to make any changes to their design priorities. Even if those priorities have resulted in missteps, they have been overwhelmingly rewarded by their decisions. Indeed, it is plainly obvious that it would be foolish to change those priorities based on the voices of Vice and Louis Rossman who look at a part of the design but not the whole. This is akin to fans asking LeBron James to take fewer shots because he missed a single game-winner.

That is to say, even if the "thin and light" priority has resulted in missteps (I think this is objectively true, re: keyboards, MBP screen cable, etc), Apple would not have been able to create a product like the Apple Watch without the expertise and processes that flow out of those priorities.

I think Apple can, and most likely will, make adjustments to the processes that come from those priorities to correct and prevent those missteps, without changing the priorities themselves.
Yeah I disagree with the article. Ive will be sought after for years. Imagine having his name attached to the next Samsung phone. His singular designs helped propel Apple to where they are on just the back of the iPhone which at one point made up north of 60% of Apple’s revenue. History will put him in the same boat as Jobs.
Mumble / murmur [1] is great. I set one up for a family member in minutes. Super easy to deploy. People should use their RC releases. They are solid, sound quality is great and it scales really well. A small to medium VM can handle thousands of people.

[1] - https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page
You serious? My old macbook had a port for everything I needed. My new one has a grand total TWO usb-c ports, and that's supposed to suffice. Madness.
Evernote failed because their product was sub-par. Onenote always provided better organization, better pen input. There were just numerous places in which you could see that man-hours were being placed in the wrong places.
What Mark Suster Missed in His Blog Post Defending uBeam (2016)
Huh, Nine does Gmail? Guess that makes sense. I've just been using it because I have 3 different Exchange accounts I need connections to and it's quite nice for that.
Think about how many orders of magnitude more instructions and system calls it takes to fork a process, open a new pipe, write bytes to the pipe, context switch to the new process, start it up, read bytes from the pipe, multiple two numbers, write bytes to the pipe, terminate the process, context switch back to the original process, read bytes from the pipe, and close the pipe (no matter how efficient forking and context switching and making system calls is), than it takes to execute a single floating point "fmul" instruction.
90% of the comments were "First Post", "GNAAA", "Stephen King is dead", "Natile Portman and hot grits"

Netcraft confirms little of value was lost.
NASA's Dragonfly mission is sending a drone to Titan
Perhaps he's alluding to the fact that a lot of laptops have had USB2 card readers internally but USB 3 ports going out.
You get downvoted for mentioning that but I'm with you. I'm finding the NY Times impossible. As i live in Europe it's not of sufficient relevance to me to take out a sub but I'd like to see the stories linked to here.
> Other countries with large armies tend to throw poorly trained, and in the case of NK, poorly fed conscripts at the problem.

This is a strange mischaracterization of Israel's and South Korea's militaries, which are two of the largest in proportion to population in the world.

Other countries with large armies don't have to pay for the enormous logistical tail the US uses to deploy worldwide, and the unique readiness levels and naval/air capabilities required to do so on reasonable notice.
I'd like to read that; it sounds like a good story. Do you happen to have a link?
I thought so too, but I saw text ads in someone else's inbox this week.
This is a stack overflow question buddy
I don't know how large your company is, but with 10k+ employees, it's suddenly a reasonable option.
The only way to avoid the composition latency is to have the entire composition be done when the GPU is sending the final image to the monitor (note that performing composition using the GPU via OpenGL or whatever is not the same thing even if both are done using the GPU), pretty much like what "hardware mouse cursor" gives you. This would require GPUs to support an arbitrary number of transformable overlapping surfaces (where a single surface=a single toplevel window) and applications being able to draw to these surfaces directly without any form of intermediate buffering (which is important to avoid the initial late frame latency).

Now, it isn't like it is impossible to make a GPU with this sort of functionality since GPUs already do some form of composition already, but AFAIK there isn't any GPU currently on the market that can do all the above. At best you get a few hardcoded planes so you can implement overlays for fullscreen content.

And of course none of the above mean that you have to use Wayland, the X server could perform toplevel window composition itself just fine.
just curious, is it easy to export all the notes to a file, or migrate notes to a different machine without using iCloud?