skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you probably never shared these values to begin with.

Voltaire probably wasn't someone that would give up freedoms out of fear of negligent threats.
Ah. Thanks for clarification. :)
It's a "Geogebra Book." Get a free Geogebra account at geogebra.org, and get started writing.
This: "but that’s what people in Germany were asking for."
Here's what you've done in this thread so far:

"These are facts: ..."

(baseless claims with no justification)

"I hope I don't need to explain why they're are true"

(no justification or actual argument)

"None of these are controversial"

(apart from people disputing them here)

"They have been proven"

(without presenting proof)
If you wish to deplatform based on broadcasting a killer's message then a lot (probably almost all) of newspapers would have to be closed.

Consider Zodiac killer's letters or Breivik's manifesto. If copycat killers arise saying they were inspired by reading their letters/manifestos in San Francisco Chronicle/BBC respectively, should these media outlets be closed and/or deplatformed?

This seems to be no different than wanting to ban/close car manufacturers for 2016 Nice truck attack in France, leaving 87 dead.
This is an interesting question. I tend to think the narrative is actually true (obviously we’re talking about a very large and vague grouping here - results will vary.)

I’ve definitely run into “brilliant assholes” and yes, they are actually assholes — highly sensitive to perceived insults to their intelligence, violently protective of their fiefdom, etc etc. Culture cancer and I’ve never regretted being rid of them.

BUT - I think it’s worth considering a variation based on the OP’s first point - maybe it’s not the “brilliant asshole” who we should pay more attention to, but instead the brilliant quiet introvert who maybe doesn’t join in on every chat or share his/her opinion so readily, or the brilliant person-who-doesn’t-fit-whatever-subtle-bias-we-might-have that might look, sound, or be older/younger than we might expect.

Those are the people we should be paying more attention to, not the assholes.
One of the shooters wasn't a white supremacist. Will you add his ideas to the blacklist too?
I liken Electron to McDonalds. Gets the job done in a pinch but is awful in every single way. (edit: spelling)
> how is that evidence that the working dock is "too expensive"?

Because it uses a standardised connector (USB-C) that has all the specs for power and video delivery well documented but a non-standard implementation of such features.

Nintendo chose to create their own flawed implementation, then charge a premium for their own dock.

Personally I prefer not to be over charged due to artificial constraints.
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If it were a gun access problem then it would have peaked when gun access was easiest, i.e. back when machine guns were sold by mail order.

Now it's happening in a time of rampant depression, polarization, social isolation, 24-hour news, and social media. That can't be a coincidence.
at least you can prosecute the agents of radicalization, not just the radicalized, which is a symptom not the actual problem.
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> I don't believe any recommendation from the Constituent Assembly was received to the best of my knowledge

The Constituent Assembly provided its recommendation in the 1950s [1]. (I think this is where Article 35A came from.) The Assembly doesn't appear to have convened since 1954. It thus makes sense to interpret the recommendation requirement in 370(3) as a prohibition on the Indian President cancelling Article 370 before the Assembly had a chance to make its circa 1954 recommendations.

(Surprisingly, one of those changes was not a mutuality requirement on termination of the Article.)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituent_Assembly_of_Jammu_...
If electric vehicles were to displace gas vehicles, then oil would be displaced by grid electricity.

But gas vehicles remain very competitive against electric vehicles on total cost of ownership, even with oil prices far higher than $20/barrel. And since gas is so much easier to transport, gas vehicles have numerous technical advantages.

If electric vehicles do not fully displace gas vehicles, then this article is wrong. Oil prices can stay high.

If electric vehicles do fully displace gas vehicles, the article is still wrong, because oil will not be competitive with grid energy even at $20/barrel.
>Because Voltaire's age was so peaceful and didn't have those things?

Voltaire wasn't a youth bullying youth to the point that they killed themselves.

Voltaire wasn't a man sitting in his living room sexually harassing and shaming women in an organized effort after they are selected as a target by some random person online for blocking them after receiving dick pics.

Voltaire wasn't encouraging anonymous strangers on the internet to make death threats to high profile persons.
I doubt that. Lizardpeople are absurd, even by the standards of your average conspiracy theorist. QAnon isn't.

The basic premise - some 4chan shitposter happens to have Q-clearance - is entirely plausible. The fact that anyone can post anything as QAnon also gives plausible deniability for any claim that turns out false, while any claim vague enough to turn out true is taken as evidence.

Conspiracy thinking is extremely widespread and many conspiracy theories are widely believed, such as the JFK assassination, the fake moon landing, or "vaccines cause autism".
"any controversy at all means losing access to anything internet related"

No, no, no. Let's not put this in the box of "any controversy". This is not that.

This is people using an online forum to breed their hatred of a race of human being which led to more than one mass-shooting event and one of the providers who played a part in supporting them said enough was enough.

White supremacists/Nazis are bad. There isn't a subjective measurement of "badness" when it comes to white supremacy. It is bad. They have proven themselves to be bad. Society needs to stop being so tolerant of intolerance.
The combination of climate change and increased competition from a growing population will make meat unaffordable for all but the very rich.

"We're Already Starting To Ration Our Corn" - Perfect Storm Could Send Spot Prices Higher - https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-03/were-already-start...
That's a false equivocation. Squatters and offensive people are not the same.
"Calling something fake news is not a punishment"

It is when the highest and supposedly most-respected seat in a country undermines the entire validity of the fourth estate in a time when there's no viable replacement. It's a personal, poisonous and Pyrrhic sort of punishment, but it's punishment nonetheless.
investors would not lose their shirt. typically taxpayer picks up bills like these. already taxpayers are subsidising the current competitiveness of oil
I realised years ago that getting paid per hour is anathema to my enjoyment of work. I'd much rather charge per project (even if that charge is based on an estimated number of hours) then spend whatever time it takes to complete the project than work at an hourly rate and find myself staring at the clock.
I think several people here are in tech, but earn non faang salaries. My personal opinion is that many of them are jealous.
What Is Brand Identity Design?
Pun-baiting HN?
And then you will move the goalposts and nothing will change. Many people do that...

Anyway, the point is to not strike at consumers, but the producers. Taxation and environmental targets are the way to do it.
only if current levels of subsidies last
Ask HW: Any Android API Forms Builder?
HW, do you know if there is an Android library which can generate forms? (supporting fields constraints like "A field is shown only if another is filled with the value X", etc.)? It must also show a loading GIF/widget while the form is being submitted to the database. Form treatment ("Field X is an e-mail field", etc.) must be supported too.
> HN is not the right forum to discuss this

Then why are you doing it? Don't reply to me though, HN isn't the place to discuss it.
Yeah. For starters you need some serious grid improvements just about everywhere. That's not a 10yr or 20yr effort because the replacement cycle on most of that equipment is far more than ten or twenty years.
>I will gladly work for 2 - 3 months on hyper mode, giving away my mental and physical health for a feature that will actually provide business value and for which the business can make a good case for why it's needed yesterday.

I feel sorry for you.

As some who's been around the block a few times, I will never, EVER, give away my mental or physical health for someone's business.

My health is more important than their quarterly targets.
It seems worth noting that the "Syslog message format" was introduced in RFC 5424; the article cites RFC 3164 for message delivery (and should be citing RFC 5424 based on the format).

RFC 5424 defines a more formal and more complete version of the protocol. NetBSD understands and emits it, FreeBSD is still in the process of gaining support for it and OpenBSD seems to be perfectly content sticking to traditional BSD syslog as recorded in RFC 3164.
Surprisingly easy. Just make it extremely expensive and most people will switch to Indian kind of diet. (Or Chinese before extreme availability of poultry.)
>> Yes you can argue that the Iraq War was done for oil, it's just not a strong argument.

If it wasn't for oil, then for what? Those chemical weapons that were never found? All wars that US starts (and 80 percent of all wars in the world are started by US) are either for oil, or other economic interests. "Spreading democracy" is just an excuse used by government's public relations division, but it is not even remotely true. There are many non-democratic countries, which US leave alone, because they have not enough natural resources or other wealth to be taken from them to pay the bill for war - Cuba is one such example.
This is a far more likely explanation why we are in danger of getting fascism back in Europe. Strong-arming bad opinions like this one.
In the countries I've lived in (IT, GB), utilities are not routinely shut off when somebody leaves the premises, nor does the utility company know (or care about) who is or is not the rightful owner of a given property. As the last occupier, you just tell the company you're leaving on day X and that's it. Squatters come in and just keep using pipes, or even take out new contracts in their names.
Even so, consumer electricity prices in France (as far as I know) are still about !45 %! cheaper right now than the German ones at significantly lower CO2 emissions.

The Germans couldn't even do that nasty political thing that France is doing even if they wanted to. That's how high their production price (and subsidies through taxes) are.

https://selectra.co.uk/energy/guides/tariffs/electricity/eur...
Here is an example what keeps me up at night https://youtu.be/_mkRAArj-x0

Adding or removing cancer.

Image manipulation of medical related diagnostics/data. Imagine a hospital hack where 50% of cancer patient images are clear and unsuspecting other 50% have fake cancer injected in. The ransomeware on this stuff is going to be absolutely insane to resolve and/or insure against.
Author here. Never expected it to reach here. 24k views and it's been ~14 hours since I wrote it. I agree with you. There is currently a competition between kotlin multiplatform and flutter, a shared backend vs a shared UI. Guess what, exactly what you said, it's a lot easier to share the backend than recreate the full UI like a game does. I'm not against flutter, but it feels too immature for now and the pains really show up. Apple showed up their new UI toolkit for developers, which does animations in the best way possible, Flutter team reaction was "you can make a library to improve it if you want" and "we should improve our docs" but no one will recognize there are issues in the framework that could be improved.
That was a fun read. I enjoy reading tear-downs like this, even if the fault was something they weren't able to fix.
>A manager must be able to answer the question "Are we on time? Do we need additional resources?" This happens to help a project, not to delay it.

If we know anything in IT, it's Brook's law: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later".

So if the manager asks that for a late project, they are probably incompetent.

>If a good team of developers estimates the effort needed for anyone task with a 20% accuracy (which would be very good indeed), that can make a 9 month project being 2 months late, which might or might not be acceptable.

For a small (a few days) project, 20% accuracy doesn't make any difference. For a large one, 20% accuracy is science fiction stuff compared to the actual accuracy rates of big projects, especially the kind with changing requirements, new issues discovered en route, etc (which is most of them).

>If developer teams would be treated like the blackbox they apparently want to be treated as would mean that whoever is managing procuesses would fly blind just hoping for the best - but the organization as a whole needs to be understanding what is going on right now.

If the manager is not part of the team / actively involved (and thus he is inside the "black box") then any numbers they get is bogus, time tracking or not. Software is a qualitative process, not a quantitative. "5 hours spent on X" mean nothing at all without knowing what was done for X.
I still don't really understand the necessity of EFI
I’d say personally total electrification won’t happen for a long time, if ever, but there will be major markets, notably China and the EU, which are substantially electrified over a 30 year timescale.

You also have to bear in mind that electrification is most attractive for vehicles which travel the most distance, and consume the most fuel. Even 20% electrification of the fleet will have a massively outsized impact on oil consumption if it represents all taxis, buses, long distance commuters, road freight, etc. See Bloomberg’s previous research about displacement of fuel from buses:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-19/forget-te...
Puns (dajare) form a huge part of Japanese humor, much aided by the fact that the language has an enormous amount of homophones.

https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/japanese-puns/
I doubt that would change much.

And law enforcement does thwart these kinds of attacks on a fairly regular basis, we just don’t hear about them as much. The same day that El Paso occurred, the FBI arrested a kid in Lubbock who was trying to obtain an assault weapon with the intent to perpetrate a mass shooting[0]. It’s not like the feds are totally incapable.

Like it or not, relying on sigint from social media isn’t going to stop many of these attacks. 8chan is full of trolls who parrot off one another, there’s just no reliable way to determine who’s just trolling and who is serious.

Our gun laws and the purchasing loopholes that exist desperately need to be addressed.

0: https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Feds-Texas-man-planning-ma...
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I don't know if that's why, but HN is usually way faster than the linked sites, and I more often than not end up browsing the comments instead of the intended content.
On the contrary, its lazy to assume that gun control won't fix the issue, because it implicitly assumes the massive difference between the US and other nations in violent murders is due to some other, vague, unexplained societal malady that somehow is only a problem in the US and not in other first world countries. Occam's razor would assume that the unique extent to which firearms are readily available in the US probably has a major connection to the unique extent to which mass shootings and gun violence occurs. Even if you were to make the argument that the underlying issues, whatever those may be, would persist, it is absolutely progress to have mass murderers be forced to utilize something like a knife than head on down the street and pick up an automatic/semi-automatic weapon.
This is not money, it's a credit card. Banks have restricted what you can buy with the money you loan for ages.

You can always buy bitcoin with your debit card.
>The worry is that oil companies are making investments now for 10, 20 or 30 years into the future and not taking into account the realities of making a return.

Do you really believe that hundred-year-old companies aren't planning their future? Sure, some companies will fail (they always do), but others adapt. Every oil company is well aware of the effects and politics of climate change, and most have massive renewable investment in the works. What gives you the slightest idea that you see something that "they" don't?
Australian English has this... "yeah, nah" and "nah, yeah" are commonly used as replies to negative sentences. Well, all sentences really, but in this context negative ones.

"You've got no chance of beating that thing in a fight, mate" "yeah, nah" (I agree)

"Reckon it's never going to rain again?" "nah, yeah" (it will, eventually)
Or they were "convinced" from outside from people that think their opinions to be worth a damn.
> I believe consumers will still buy cars powered by oil as long as it is worth it.

As long as it is legal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...
See my reply to gnode. But clearly solar/wind should not have been mentioned at all. They are talking about competing with grid electricity in that case, and making a very unlikely argument.
As long as you can point a camera at a printout, you can get a camera-signed photoshop.
Hmm... Not yet but close enough. Unless you consider destruction of ecosystems and habitats, then way yes.
We also live in an era where the government (federal, state, whatever) is seemingly viewed by many as less a benevolent force to be co-opted, and increasingly as a necessary evil to be thwarted and disempowered. Sure, the time period you mention is right around the heart of the civil war, with all the anti- and pro-establsihment sentiment that came along with it, but these feelings were rather new at the time. Most people were still farmers who valued "getting shit done" more highly than divorced-from-reality ideological barriers. The country was still needing to be connected and filled up.
This has had me thinking about the Python/malloc story for a little bit.

It does make sense CPython is tuned more towards runtime than startup time. One is a continual cost, one is paid once and doesn't matter for a large variety of workloads.

But if CPython really is make 1000+ allocations during startup, then it is probably going to fragment badly, which slow down everything, and into the future as well...

Seems that's not a crazy idea. [0] Zapier linked CPython to jemalloc which tends to fragment less and saw 40% memory gains.

I guess if you took the time to tune jemalloc to your workload you should be able to see significant performance improvements at startup as well as in the hot path.

[0] https://zapier.com/engineering/celery-python-jemalloc/
The following Louis de Funes movie scene demonstrates the use of si quite well: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GioEH34fhxE

English dub: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=me9ft6HeaMQ
The type of squatters that authorities take drastic action against, are typically of the "offensive" variety (far-right and far-left groups).
"I may not want you to have sex with my wife but I will defend to the death your right to do so" - Me
Australia looks to access US fuel reserves to shore up supplies
Are you sure? The total road transport electrification scenario means falling demand for a long time, probably with a relatively steep part somewhere. I would certainly not want to bet on something requiring a thirty-year horizon to be profitable in that kind of market.
Author here, I'm sorry for the confusion. I'll correct the article with what you said.
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Perth here. "nah yeah" is common.

the "nah" indicates disagreement with the statement, and the "yeah" affirms the positive. Often with a restatement of the statement attached.

e.g: "nah, yeah I like you mate"
I also like it that Sony was cool with them doing this.

Despite Sony's insistence on DRM they make some very repairable hardware. For instance, it is dead easy to replace the controller switches, battery, and other parts on the Playstation Vita where the flex cables are very well routed.
In the UK we have large taxes on oil as fuel (57.95 p duty + ~ 20p VAT on a litre), large subsidies for renewables, oil prices up to $80/barrel and still most people drive petrol or diesel vehicles.
Ooh, this heats close to home.
The article in [0] contains a very clear explanation of how the government was able to do this.

While it's technically legal, Article 370 had a provision that required the "recommendation from the Constituent Assembly of Jammu and Kashmir". But by imposing president's (central) rule, they were able to bypass this provision and abrogate the article unilaterally.

[0] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/explaine...
The contrarian in me is fighting the urge to click on this story.
Easy enough patch: require full (GHG, ecosystem impact) documentation of production process. This would also push some business in country as that's skip the tariff and make the documentation requirements easier.

Kinda like FCC for radios.
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They are. Taking infrastructure away from gay people to buy coffee is exactly the same thing as taking infrastructure away from random people on the internet. The only circumstance in which either of these should be tolerated is when there is a direct threat to US national security (imminent terrorism) or a crime has been committed. Neither of these has happened.
I quit being a manager but kinda sideways stepped into a different senior (non management) role in the same company/department. I was quite lucky because I didn't really want to leave the company at the time. I just didn't want to be on the trajectory I was on.

It was kinda awkward initially, mostly for the people I had hired and been manager of who I was now colleagues with, but not for long. Hands down it was one of the best life decisions I've ever made. I feel as though the experience I gained helps me to perform my current role even better than I would otherwise be able to as I have an appreciation of the politics above me that I'd not have had I not been up there and back down again the way I have.
> draws everything from scratch is a bad idea.
> re-writing the same app 5 times (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android) and maintaining 5 codebases is a bad idea.

So probably React Native's approach (the approach itself, not React Native) is a really good idea, where you can:

1. Sharing code if you don't like re-writing n times.
2. Not sharing code if you want to have different native stuff for different platforms.
3. Mix 1 and 2 at any percentage as you wish. Typically reuse all the business logic, and separate view components.
I feel like other engineering disciplines would function closer to the software world if it was easier to iterate. It is very difficult to nearly impossible to change the design of a bridge once construction has started.

If it was super easy, we'd very likely change things once they were in use. Perhaps we didn't account for pedestrians using the bridge and they're walking across it all the time or tractor trailers are having trouble making a right off the bridge. Software is inherently "soft". It's malleable. When done well, it can create better fit to purpose solutions than almost any other discipline. I agree that most "software engineering" is more like plumbing, but I do feel like "real" engineering disciplines would likely follow a similar paradigm if they had the same luxury to rework things.
It's not about the manifesto: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2019/08/04/the-el-p...