skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think an argument could be made that Republicans, or at least conservatives, have now become the defenders of free speech while "the left" seems not just comfortable with but intent on increasing censorship, at least certain kinds.

I will note that this isn't a complete slam dunk of an argument, I would say the left in the 60's was motivated more by the general principle of free speech, whereas I would say the right today is more motivated by self-benefit. And also I suppose it doesn't go without saying: the first amendment and the general principles of free speech / censorship are similar but distinct ideas.
Ah, but pollution is bigger in Asia.

https://waqi.info/
TIL that Java 10 added local-variable type inference, to which I say, about damn time. I indeed decry having to type (and read) Foo<Bar> baz = new Foo<Bar>(), and no, Foo<Bar> baz = new Foo<>() isn't much better. I tested a project a couple of years ago using Java 8, and the contrast with the magical inferential powers of lambdas was stark.

Maybe it's because I've spent so much time in dynamically typed languages, but I see var/auto as absolutely essential to making static typing palatable. I'm a big fan of static typing, but I would be much less so if I had to do it without inference/deduction.
Isn't it better in nearly every situation to know something has failed immediately, rather than get a delivery failure notice a couple of days later?
Afaik “quantum language” is a term for legitimate, and still ongoing, attempts at finding the semantic core of human languages. Possibly not ‘the’ accepted term, but used in some papers.
Is this a quote from something?
no, it's not. It's just a company based whatsapp group chat you can use while looking busy
It’s so odd. Watching the debates, it’s unfathomable that we have candidates calling for intervention in Honduras.... Democrat candidates... one could be forgiven for thinking this was Bush’s war-hawk party...
Surely the right term for what you describe is “discriminatory”. All forms of undesirable -ism fall within the broader, general purview of “discrimination”.
You mean the concern that the people might elect a demagogue...?
Nothing, if it's just used for that (narrow, least-bad, degraded) situation. I was addressing the more general point that LIFO queues have some actionable superiority over FIFO in the general case because of the theoretical results cited in the literature.
Yet integrated circuits are more open than Apple products because they offered their functionality through a standardized pin-"API", and could be combined with circuits from other manufacturers. Apple products are mainly designed to live in an Apple-only ecosystem.
I am tired of hearing about why I shouldn't use SSH. SSH is fantastic and I always want it enabled on every single server so when things go wrong I can debug. I've had AWS "solutions architects" puzzled about why I'm still using SSH but they can never justify any other solution. First they tell me that I should just log everything we'd want to look at. I do log everything I think would be useful, but unforeseen things happen and it is really handy to have shell access to the misbehaving server. Then they suggest I use Systems Manager to perform server updates but I have no need for that because I use an immutable deployment model.

Managing server access in a multi-account organization is a real issue, though. I currently manage 11 AWS accounts and the best solution I've implemented so far is extending NSS and configuring sshd to query our identity provider (Okta) for user/group information and SSH public keys. Each type of server is configured to permit access to a subset of Okta groups. For example, members of the DevOps group get full privileges, anyone else that has a use-case for using SSH (like in a QA environment) gets some form of limited access. With this in place, I can grant/revoke privileges and manage developer keys all from one central location.
How did she act when watching a movie, that's different from adults when we watch movies?
You can easily find the new 3D models, but the updated AI code?

I think that is unlikely
> I have a Lenovo T480 which is 10x better than a T490. Snag one while you can...

The T490 is a regression, I agree, but the upcoming Lenovo P53 looks to be a great machine. It has almost same chassis (just a couple improved ports) as the P52, which is (IMO) superior to the T480. And you can get it with Linux installed at the factory!

There seems to be a consistent slide, where once-venerable machines like the Macbook "Pro", Lenovo T-series, HP Elitebook etc. get slimmed and down-spec'ed to expand the market to more buyers.

Hopefully the Apple can now produce a new top-end product line, the "Macbook Actually For Professionals Again" or something like that. Then they could continue marketing to and designing for students and media consumers with the MBP, and release better hardware for those who need it.
They gym doesn't have any policy. If you have a membership, you're free to use the facility or not. Real life doesn't have any policy either, if you have the capability, you're free to copy & distribute what you have access to or not. It is a third party that is trying to interfere with these native abilities. The ability to create something is not intrinsically tied to the ability to control it.

Which isn't to say there's anything wrong with copyright laws, per se. What I'm saying is that it is not 'entitlement' on the part of the copier, but entitlement on the part of the copyright holder to expect to hold dominion over other people's capabilities. That is the negotiated result of social processes.
That's sad. One of the main features of Yandex mail was that your data was reasonably safe from Western intelligence.
Our military (US) and military budget is just another cold war era echo which has been propagating for far too long. There are so many alarmist media outlets in this country who 'make their steak' off of fear mongering (looking at you FOX news) and what's more unfortunate is the general public's seeming endless supply of naive assent too their ideals and tactics.

It isn't the US governments fault the military industrial complex is so large, it's ours. So long as we continue to sheepishly abide by the ignorant notion that our public officials are moral actors whose ambitions and initiatives are driven and monitored by their superb ethical standards we are doomed.

We have to hold the women and men in office accountable not only for their actions but for our agenda. We have to stop living under the yoke of fear and distraction pumped out by the media machine. We have to be brave and fight back or else, when the shit hits the fan, we can only blame ourselves.
Can you even disable desktop composition in Wayland? One of the reasons I hate Windows is that I'm forced to use composition, which provides nothing to me.
As I cannot edit to provide a link to the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20022485
glad someone studied this thoroughly, because i would have sworn financial crises makes us all happy, but now i stand corrected.
Love or hate big tobacco, millions have used and loved cigarettes. What an argument!

"It's nothing as dramatic". Really? Millions of unrepairable wireless earbuds heading to the landfill every year is not dramatic?
That's not really how acronyms work, that doesn't convey the same meaning.
Now this is the sort of news I can use.
Pretty much every Linux desktop GUI's been on top of the X Window System—which has been synonymous with the Xorg implementation thereof for, oh, 15ish years now—until very recently. Red Hat's behind a totally different replacement for X Window (and so, Xorg) called Wayland, but desktop environments that run on top of X Org will require major work to move them over to it, and most haven't done that yet, if they ever will. Last I checked Wayland's also a bit half baked at this point, from a "does it work with all my stuff and do all the things I'm used to" perspective, so news that it's the only system receiving new feature development means some risk of a fairly awkward transition period.

Notably, I think you still can't get hardware acceleration under Wayland for nvidia cards, making it unusable. Yeah that's nvidia's "fault" but to the end user it makes no difference if they upgrade their distro, the distro switches from Xorg to Wayland, and suddenly their computer sucks.
Maybe in Iraq, but Lybia, Afghanistan and Syria would be even worse without foreign intervention.
Yep. I tend to agree that we could have gone faster. The difficulty is that getting clear information out fast when you are dealing with a difficult situation is hard.

But, I guess we could have put some status up quicker.
If it's working, why break it by adding new stuff?

I'm very fond of old software that has been battle tested, rather than jumping on the bandwagon of the newest thing which is invariably rough around the edges.

Just look at the terminal latency of Wayland default compositor vs X, or 3D performance with NVIDIA, or weird configuration - it doesn't work as good as the old thing
It is easy to complain generally, but is is better to be specific about what ways you think America is not free. Americans still enjoy great freedom of speech and association, for example. No Lèse-majesté in the land of the free. There is a lot of propaganda but that isn't necessarily inconsistent with freedom.

The real issue is there is a risk that economically speaking America is less free than China. For all that what China does with intellectual property is illegal under American law, it is very free. The US would for sure like them to be a little less free with IP. America's policies over interest rates also look decidedly like the sort of thing that a centrally planned economy would try and execute; it handicaps building savings which might give China an advantage if they are more middle-class-savings-tolerant.

That is balanced by the strictly superior American rule of law, for all its warts. But America has given themselves some interesting competitive handicaps.

POSTSCRIPT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven... For reference, China has a ratio of 4:1 private to public income vs America with a 2.6:1 ratio. Technically, China might be running a smaller government. Or lying, it is hard to know.

POSTPOSTSCRIPT Hong Kong and Taiwan are nearly 9:1. Capitalist paradise is in Asia. Nothing lower down the list looks appealing to me.
Well, there are other means of communication but they either:

* do not fit well for a quick message interchange like you can have during an outage (email)

* don't have the whole company (or at least the whole tech team) on it (whatsapp, telegram, you name it)

* make compliated to share big chunks of text/logs (phone call)

It probably makes sense creating another secondary - usually dormant - communication hub like a WhatsApp group for emergencies but people tend to misuse it (like using it to ping for some minor incident when all the other more suited communication tools are working perfectly).

Anyway it wasn't a big outage on our systems, just a minor hiccup, but it's a lesson learnt nonetheless.
My MBP is the best machine I've ever owned. I bought it brand new in 2015 and it is still just as good as the day I got it. Your comparison is unfair given that there have been excellent machines in the past 5 years but they lost focus in the past 3 years.
Linux on the desktop would be a reality already if Linux had a stable driver API.
I don't think the article goes far enough.

>>sacrifices had to be made in terms of repairability"

It's not just repairability. There are substantial sacrifices made to usability; Ive chooses form over function.

Example 1:
Thanks to Ive's fetish with "smaller/slimmer", everyone is now carrying around a bag full of adapters and dongles to connect the devices they use: usb, video, network, etc.

Example 2: The butterfly keyboard. Loud, an ergonomic mess, and unreliable.

Example 3: The absurd decision to place the charging port on the wireless mouse on the bottom - rendering it unusable while it charges. But it looks so sleek.
Yes, we did. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/stored-proced...
Globalisation is dead and we need to invent a new world order
I think it's reasonable to assume that someone else will pick up the development. IIRC Ubuntu 20.04 at least as of now will still go with X.org
Wayland is literally never going to be ready unless it’s forced to be. How long has Nvidia promised to support it now, and still unless you’re using Nouveau it’s basically not usable on Nvidia cards.
This doesn't bode well for companies like streak whose sole product is an add-on to Gmail...
It has emojis and is the Next Best Thing (tm)
Is IT service manager a feasible career option?
You can find non-tracking & non-recommending Youtube apps like NewPipe on F-Droid.
Unlike Maven Central or almost every other package registry in the world, NPM is operated by a venture capital founded startup (npm Inc).

So, yeah, their priorities are very different and that leads to questionable technical decisions.

A number of prominent ex-employees have collaborated on a new, federated package repository called Entropic. Frankly, I hope they succeed and npm Inc meets its inevitable fate.
Thanks for the acknowledgement. Appreciate it's hard, false positives etc. Glad you see our PoV.
Reminds me of George Dantzig, who solved two unsolved problems in statistics because he mistook them for homework.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-unsolvable-math-proble...

I wonder how many other breakthroughs have occurred in a 'hard' problem that was thought to be 'easy'.
I would like to know what is the plan for raspberry pi.
It makes sense to have a fallback method set ahead of time, as others have mentioned.

You won't have access to the things slack integrates with but at least you can talk.

I know some people use IRC as a low-dependency fallback channel.
You get that "flood of low-quality papers" on Arxiv but most researchers filter through papers daily and are generally capable of isolating the relevant and interesting from the dull and unimportant. Probably a lot of citations to papers are somewhat dishonest with the Arxiv version being the only version that was read. From another researcher's standpoint, the peer review is not very important: you already know if you got scooped, you already know if you find something interesting enough to study as well.

Peer review seems to have a purpose but it does not seem to be a quality gate keeping purpose. Perhaps enforcing orthodoxy is the actual purpose.
Because they don’t trust their IT or operations groups to manage IRC or any other open source communication system; even as they trust those same people to run the software that makes them money.

/shrug
What an incredibly arrogant generalization to make. You know there are also production issues created by moving too slow and failing to address pending scalability issues, right?
Maintenance mode != dead [1]

This just means that development of _new_ features and research should take place on Wayland where it belongs. From what I've read X has been a long evolution into a hodepodge of historical but effectively dead interfaces with newer ones crammed along side... it doesn't make sense to continue the tradition of cramming more features into X, but that doesn't stop people developing new things on top of it while Wayland matures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_mode
> stop living under the yoke of fear and distraction pumped out by the media machine

If you have a solution that scales up to the population at large I'm all ears.
I wouldn't say "let things go" but let's face facts: The US has bases all over the world. We occupy dozens of countries for nebulous reasons. If global security is that fragile, when is it ever going to not be?

My second thought is that the US MIC is out for itself. It would be one thing if we had a defense system like the Swiss which I look at as pretty sensibly invested civil defense infrastructure (which, btw, the Swiss are rapidly losing as they forget the lessons of the past). Instead, we spend billions on expensive, fancy technical weapons systems that don't necessarily measure up. For example, the Littoral Combat Ship that has an aluminum hull that cracks in cold water. Or the F35 which has to be one of the biggest aeronautical boondoggles in history. We just keep pouring billions down rat holes because of corporatism. I currently work in the health insurance biz and it's the same tune--billions going in all kinds of odd directions in order to make money but outcomes haven't changed or have gotten worse. But our stock price is great!
I'm part of a mostly remote team. Slack going down sucks. And Pre-slack suuuuuuuuucked.
The video is more about how he quit for a long time. And explaining why he quit. I have no idea why the title got changed.
He made a lot of good points and then his entire argument went out the window in the last sentence.
>Can you provide any examples where Node does not provide a good ecosystem for backend programming?

A decent URL parsing/matching lib not tied to a full web framework ? Disclosure - haven't done serious node work in a while but ~2 years ago when I was building something in with it all the published libs for this were complete garbage - looking at the code for the packages made me realize what sort of crap gets published to NPM and then actually used/referenced by community.

I think it's better than PHP (took on a PHP integration job to help out a friend in trouble recently - that was going back to the dark ages with package management and module system). But it's the same tier in my eyes - filled with clueless newbies trying to lead other newbies - a community of blind leading the blind.

In my eyes a sane/mature language like Python beats Node any day of the week quality/productivity wise and so does stuff built on top of JVM/CLR. As much as C#/Java devs like to obfuscate code with useless patterns I'd take a random C#/Java package over a random Node package any time - at least the developer managed to convince the type system to compile his code - wouldn't say that the authors could do the same for some of the NPM packages I saw.
I'm pretty sure Mythbusters busted that one (for moose, at least)
Minor nit pick:

All slaveowners = people who owned slaves = bad ("complicated" at best)

All Germans during WWII =/= Nazis.

There's plenty of great WWII era Germans who didn't support that Nazis and helped take them down.

But yea, fuck Nazis.
The PRC maintains Taiwan is part of their territory and the ROC maintains the mainland is part of theirs.

The US has traditionally used Taiwan as yet another military foothold in the Asia-Pacific to project and exert its own influence in the region for geopolitical objectives, the containment of China being one of them.
> I think that remote working is psychologically hard. I trust that most people can pull it off short term; long term is more difficult.

I've been full-time remote for about a year now, and I'm kind of done with it.

It was fantastic at first. I live in Boston, and my commute was about an hour and a half in every morning, and about two hours home every night. Being able to step over the dog and be at my office was (and is) awesome.

But I never see anyone anymore, and that's starting to wear on me. My wife still commutes, so we have about two hours with each other every night before we have to go to bed and do it all again the next day. If I'm not intentional about it, I'll spend 23 hours a day in my house, and while I'm not the most social person around, I think it's starting to have actual negative consequences for my life. I'm grumpier, I get sick more often, I'm tired ...
See the last paragraph in my original. Fixed routes to have advantages, but only when/where you are sure they are very busy and will be for a long time. Most routes are not that sure in the modern world, so the flexibility advantages of non-fixed routes is important.

Of course part of the advantage of flexible routes is we assume car infrastructure is in place. While that isn't entirely desirable, it is reality: anyone fighting it directly is ignoring reality. Better to fight it indirectly which means making public transit better and better until people decide on their own to get rid of their car - only when few people use a car regularly can getting rid of roads be realistic.

Build it and they will come doesn't always work.
Ironically a Civic would probably be high on that hippie's list of cars. What really would be folly is advertising an oversized lifted pickup truck.
It's a reasonably nice client, and available on every platform.

It has easy integrations with basically everything, and non-developers can set them up on their own.

It has bouncer functionality built in - You don't miss messages. It can also archive them, and handle them in a corporate-compliant way without needing to speed a bunch of time setting that up manually.

Because it's a central company and not IRC push-notifications are easy.

Emoji are shared corporate wide, anyone can add them.

It's a really nice out of the box experience.

You can absolutely replicate it with enough setup and tweaking, but the free version of Slack will go a long way.
Actually, I find it surprisingly small when considering how powerful it is.

In terms of men (2.2M active and reserve), combat tanks (6,300), artillery (1,700), war ships (130), submarines (70) and fighter planes (2,400) it’s dwarfed by militaries of the past.

Of course the firepower is much larger nowadays and nuclear weapons also make conventional military play a different role, and the US military - although engaged in several conflicts around the world - is mostly a peace time force, but I still find it amazing that the armies of the WWII era were so much larger.
> Linux on the desktop would be a reality already if Linux had a stable driver API.

Linux on the desktop (and other consumer devices) is a reality, via Android and ChromeOS. What's not a reality is consumer use of the userspace tools and desktop environments lots of people mentally associate with Linux, but I doubt very much that's about driver APIs.
> Well sure American and other companies have tried to gain market share in China, but China has effectively stifled a lot of foreign competitors from entering.

"National Interest" is the key phrase, and the US has similar protective barriers in key industries. Food security is one such area that the US protects, and to that end, it provides a lot of agricultural subsidies preventing a lot of foreign farmers from entering the American market. The pearl-clutching when China does the same in their national interest is lacking in self-awareness.

The US agricultural subsidies have interesting first- and second-order effects (cheap corn syrup, obesity and corporate farm consolidation) - but I digress.
The red dot differentiated it from the non-cellular version.
In general mail servers will reply back with a failure notice within an hour or so. This isn't a standardized behavior and timeouts and retry semantics differ.
Apple devices are not physically addictive. Jesus Christ.
Great work! I've always wanted this. I would love to see it go one step further though... It would be great if the text content (and comments) could be run through some sort of text to speech/virtual avatar "host". I'd love to be able to watch the discussion that happens in the HN comments on a story.

Maybe even some meta analysis or digest of what the discussion was about too.