skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Youtube has removed many videos pushing subversive views[1]. Do I agree with these views (maybe I do, I haven't seen the videos, but I doubt it), no. But that's beside the point. And you're right, youtube and 8chan don't want to be hosting that stuff. If I had the power I would like to think I would act differently, but I understand that the teleological purpose of a company is to make money and if I was in a similar situation, I might fold as well.

And, like you said, classical liberalism is about freedom, for both corporations and individuals. I certainly don't think that censorship on these platforms should be illegal or anything. I'm just disappointed, I guess. I feel like the world is moving in the wrong direction. I always thought the internet was going to empower everyone and subvert centralized power structures. In some regards, it did and it still does. But these subversive upstarts are now the new centralized power structures and it seems like the next wave of subversion and decentralized has not happened yet and may not ever happen.

It troubles me that the very same people arguing about a women's right to choose are slamming facebook and youtube and twitter for allowing people to express their opinions. It troubles me that these same people don't recognize the rights to buy and use drugs or consume pornography. The political axis of most people seem two multi-dimensional: They like some freedoms and want to take away others. But the way I see it there is only one dimension: oppression and tyranny on one end and free speech and individualism on the other. Social and economic freedoms go hand and hand, which is something both conservatives and liberals both seem to be confused about.

Health care isn't a human right, housing isn't a human right, forcing businesses to transact with you if they don't want to isn't a human right. The only true human right is to live one's own life free from tyranny and oppression. To do anything that doesn't impinge upon another human's right to do the same.

> Not exactly sure how legal bestiality fits into liberalism; if you view the animal as a thinking entity, wouldn't having sex with something unable to provide consent be a violation of liberal principles?

Well, I mean, then maybe we should outlaw animals having sex with each other? It's not like they give consent to each other.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/business/youtube-remove-e...
> Fascinating if you manage to borrow one though

Even more fascinating, if they manage to wear it the whole day.
I think you're spot on with that revenue model. I would certainly be willing to pay a couple of bucks for a premium suite of templates and components, or integrations with less mainstream technologies.

One idea I'd really love is simple Git integration. If I want to download my code and work on it outside of the GUI, it seems cumbersome to return to the GUI for simpler tasks (e.g. let me double click this string instead of remembering which parent component has it). If I could sync to Git, you'd have all of my money!

As for a word of unsolicited advice: Don't be afraid to monetize! Plenty of people (and corporations) use and pay for tools like e.g. Figma which don't even produce code on this level. What you have right now is, in my opinion, more than generous for a free service.

Cheers, best of luck!
The Town That Was Washed Away: 8 Years After the Great Tohoku Earthquake
Oh yay another browser bundled with software. Why not just handle links out to our own browsers?
> It is normally connected with a high speed interconnect though (100 Gbit/sec and more) what is its most defining capability.

That's his point. The high speed interconnect, the defining capability of the modern super computer, is unnecessary to solve the problem they are using a super computer to solve.

They could have equally well used BOINC or some other distributed, loosely coupled technology for this.

I agree with you regarding "it's available." It sounds like a press person got ahold of it and stopped paying attention once they saw the word "supercomputer".
Not the OP but I am very concerned with telling people to pipe anything from curl straight to your shell.
You imply that purism has software switches but I believe they are hardware switches.

My purism laptop has two hardware kill switches for camera and wifi. The switches remove the devices from the circuit.
1. Watt-hours are not the same thing as Watts.

2. That's not a laptop, that's a luggable.
It already happened for those reference frames, they just haven't been able to observe it yet. For any such beings living there, they don't know about the event yet. But when they witness it, they will measure and calculate that the event did occur before today.

The only reference frame that could see it and then measure and calculate it as having happened after today would be one travelling faster than c relative to us.
Raster formats have a worst-case file size that is linked to their visual size.

SVG has no such limit; for a given visual size it can have arbitrarily many objects. If you’re not careful, you can quite easily end up with multi-megabytes SVGs where a PNG would have been <100KB.

SVG is therefore a dangerous format to use if you don’t know what you’re doing, because its performance characteristics are quite unlike raster formats.
Yes, and due to inflation.
Are there any other academic fields so dependent on a single piece of software the way that (experimental) particle physics is dependent on ROOT?
If the Tuition Doesn’t Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will
Because the bond pays out at the end of the term, but you can sell it at any point of the term for whatever the market price is.

So for example let's say you bought a -0.1% yield, but newly issued bonds are now only offering a -0.5% yield you can now actually sell your bonds paying out -0.1% at a profit, since even if they paid you a 3.5% premium on the price you paid, it would still be more attractive than the rate on offer for new bonds.
No, your interpretation is not quite correct. You do indeed use your own clock to determine the time of events in your own frame of reference. But you still need to account for the light travel time of the event. This is why you need both the position and the time of the event in order to do a Lorentz transformation.

To see this another way, suppose you saw two events at the same time, one two light-years away, and the other one light-year away. In your interpretation you would call those events simultaneous. Simultaneous events cannot affect each other in any reference frame. But if the two events were in a line, the light from the first event could have triggered the second.
C128 + external floppy was around A500 price point. And to exemplify Commodore business acumen at the time apparently C128 BOM was very close of that of A500 ....
I clearly don't have a grasp of reference frames. Can someone elucidate?

The event occurred is 26,000 light years away, we date it as having occurred 26,000 years ago.

How is it that a location that's closer, say 10,000 light years, would have dated the event to 26,000 ago rather than 10,000 light years?
Very cool project.

Looking at the code I really like code that comes out of this. Very easy to read / change.

I would like to see authentication done with SQL as an option. Admittedly that would be more work than firebase, but it would be a nice second opinion that is more portable / not tied to Google.
You can do that with any library. You can issue Django commands by running `python -m django`; that doesn't change the fact that Django is a completely separate project from Python.
Are you saying that the only reference frame where the event happened "now" is the reference frame of the black hole itself? I'm quite familiar with relativity of simultaneity, and that would lead me to conclude that from my reference point, two things happened simultaneously: the black hole flared, and the clock read 11am on May 13th, 2019. Given this, I would think we would describe that in English as "the black hole flared at 11am on May 13th, 2019."
Cars .. faster? Not in the city, and not even close.

Even pedal-power bikes are usually faster. And these bikes are probably 500W nominal, which is already 5 times as powerful as a typical human rider. US limits top speed to 20mph, sure, but you can still peg that pretty easily, even up hills.
Typical Verge article. A lot of personal opinion poised to upset or rally the reader.

The tending section is one of the core features of Twitter. It tells you what is trending and being discussed the most. If it's being exploited or manipulated, then they should work on solving that problem.

Sure it inspires craziness, but the real problem - in my opinion - the human tendency for tribalism. Removing the feature from the current day most popular site won't fix anything.
Coupling is not bad in itself. Depends on what you want to achieve. There's likely always a trade-off.
> The people doing the hard work of making a dictionary deserve to serve those definitions under their own terms.

This depends on the country. In the EU, this may be the case. However, the US Supreme Court rejected the "sweat of the brow" copyright doctrine in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R.... For a creative expression to be copyrightable in the US, it must have some minimum threshold of originality.

The wording of dictionary definitions themselves may be copyrightable if sufficiently unique. But the question of fair use should be considered as well. If Google as a matter of policy always consulted a particular database for a particular class of searches, without permission from the copyright owner, perhaps one could argue that crosses the line of fair use. But for isolated results, it doesn't appear much different than the current practice of putting snippets of the page below the links in the search results. For more extensive databases, Google often has an explicit agreement with the database owner.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, I don't know anything about the implementation of the answer box, and certainly don't know the law in multiple jurisdictions.
Thank you, that was very informative! How did you learn so much about audio?

I use Sennheiser HD600 at home (mostly for classical music), and Bose QC-15 at work (mostly for pop/rock/electronic). I also have Grado SR125, but I rarely listen with them, because they are not very comfortable, even though the sound is pretty good - they feel more dynamic and lively than HD600, but that could be due to the difference in impedance (the source is Macbook Pro, which might technically be to weak to drive HD600, I'm not sure).

Based on this information, would you recommend any other headphones for me to try?
"Fox turned into a hardcore porn channel so gradually I didn't even notice."
Well for one thing the scale is quite different in terms of population and size. They are more like at most two Chinese provinces combined. Another thing is more historical: they are all effectively allies of the US and even with US troops deployed on their land. IMO they are not quite compelling examples.
Must have bee a good meal
Liking nukes falls into the same category as liking dams: I want to believe they aren’t going to happen because they are economically infeasible. The same money would buy significantly more capacity in wind/solar/storage.

The sticking point with dams and nukes is the same thing: the sheer cost of finding a suitable location, preparing the site, then pouring thousands of tons of concrete (and that has to be exactly the right concrete with no shortcuts).

So yeah, I will happily support policy which includes considering nukes when it also includes considerations that I am interested in, but I am not supporting any subsidies for nukes and dams when that money is far better spent elsewhere.

The catch there is that the folks that want the nukes and dams will get my support in principle, then trade someone else’s support for subsidising nukes and dams for support of legislation around guns for teachers or “religious freedom” (aka the right to discriminate based on race or religion) or something else I loathe.

So the nukes and dams people get their nukes and dams by spending all the money that could have gone to cheaper power, and we get extremely regressive social policy to boot.

So given the horse trading that goes on, I can not support dams and nukes for any reason, because even though I believe they are economically infeasible the people that want to build them will trade away things that I consider more valuable than money.

For the nukes and dams people, it is far more important to funnel government funds into their (friends’) companies. Nothing else matters: climate change, social well-being, healthy economy … they just don’t care.

Check out the Trump administration in the USA with their continual whittling of environmental protection in favour of fossil fuels, or the Morrison government in Australia with water rights rorting.

There is simply no room for negotiating with these people because they are not rational actors.
What are the chances that cosmic events of this kind could affect Earth ? say.. ironically massaging atmospheric state and climate change ?
Me as well, I thought to my self 'that dude has some resemblance to Tom Cruise' for a second and the next moment the similarity had dissapeared and I fully dismissed my initial reaction since he afterwards had no real resemblance.. Dismissed it and thought my mind had played a trick on me because of sleepiness or something. Only after glancing the video comments (after first full view) did I understand what was going on.
A buck shot approach of mailing malicious USB devices would likely be devastating.
The closer location would have received the signal 16,000 years earlier than us here on Earth. They would still say that it happened 10,000 years before they observed it, but they would still say it happened in year 24,000 BC.
Your Toyota analogy doesn't make sense.

Oil changes—Apple devices don't need equivalent routine hardware maintenance.

Warranty repairs/recalls—Whether Toyota or Apple, the manufacturer is obliged to perform (or pay a third party to perform) the rectification.

Smash repairs—Neither Apple nor Toyota is responsible for impact damage that wasn't caused by manufacturer negligence. In both cases you'd go to a third party repair shop to mitigate asset loss.
Why link to ad blogs instead of the actual study https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01777?
> To see this another way, suppose you saw two events at the same time, one two light-years away, and the other one light-year away. In your interpretation you would call those events simultaneous.

Yes, I would say that those events occurred at the same time in my reference point, while also recognizing that we can't say in an absolute sense that they were simultaneous. Isn't that the point of relativity of simultaneity?
Doesn’t that sound kind of whacky in retrospect?
> but only 2 minutes will have passed in your frame of reference?

Only 2 minutes would have passed for the SMBH in your frame of reference (but 52k years would have passed for earth in your frame of reference)
Red Meat Could Be the Next Sin Tax After Sugar, Fitch Says
Aside from buying physical gold at a refinery, is there a place to buy gold from the equities market? Sorry if this question sounds naive/ridiculous. If it's in my country, people would go to gold/jewelry shops and buy gold. In the US, I'm not sure if it's the case. Thank you.
I still hear the intro music of 'Defender of the Crown' in my dreams sometimes.

That series of articles is amazing and I am happy to see it re-appear here. They have a Patreon and some e-books but I'd buy an illustrated hard copy of the 68000 articles.
Sorry, I thought in HN everyone has equal right to discuss on facts regardless his/her account is created today or ... 5 months ago.
I didn't say that individuals shouldn't seek such repairs. I'm just talking about whether it makes sense for Apple to offer them.
The whole notion that there is a field and it has a key question and there's a goal to solve it is already a triple set of local maximums.
Actually, remote display is possible with the base Dell iDrac Express license by enabling ssh console COM2 redirection. This is not enabled by default and not very obvious that it is even possible (probably because Dell wants to sell these iDrac licenses). For me the COM2 redirection is all that I need for a server in a datacenter without physical access. For example, if the server OS is not booting, I can still ssh to the idrac and change BIOS options or select alternative boot options in grub. For OS installs I use chroot. So really no need for an idrac license in my case.
Loved M.U.L.E. Friend and I used to play for hours on the Commodore64. Now we still play using the emulator.
The link you provided says the phrase "Winnie the Pooh" couldn't be posted on Weibo/WeChat at that time, with a screenshot not supporting that claim, but rather showing a sticker pack of Winnie the Pooh no long being available. Assuming that was truthful (I wouldn't be so sure because HK news about Mainland China can be as exaggerated as Western news, sometimes more because the stake's higher) that's still pretty far from the "someone who bans all Winnie The Pooh pictures across a country" claim above.

> but there are easily equally, if not more, absurd claims about USA in China too.

I wouldn't be surprised. Naturally this is what happens when you talk about things you have zero experience with.

> BTW, maybe try 8964 八九六四 and see what you get.

I never said nothing is censored. Btw at least every single soul I've talked to about this in China knows exactly what it means, contrary to claims I've seen from certain Western journalists that people typically aren't aware. Censoring something inevitably makes people more interested.
Putin the Great: Russia’s Imperial Impostor
I think what you're saying is the more common use of "tech debt", basically just using it as a synonym for "bad code". Don't worry about code quality, figure it out later.

It ignores the stronger debt analogy -- sure, there is a high chance that the idea fails. But if it succeeds and, all else being equal, you have taken on a less tech debt to get there, you will be able to iterate on and grow it more efficiently. So to the extent you're taking on debt, it should be an explicit trade-off to increase your chances of proving out the idea. Which is not the same as "don't worry about bad code at all."

From what I've seen, when it comes to talking about tech debt from an early prototype, it's often an excuse/euphamism to be considerate to the people that wrote it. The truth is often that it's just bad code due to them being inexperienced or lacking the skill or discipline to write better code. Which I don't mean as an insult, it seems like there's a strong inverse correlation between the kind of person who's passionate enough about product over tech, and is creative/naive enough to build and validate a brand new product, and the kind of person who understands enough to architect a great system and make the best tech debt trade-offs.
Sounds like you might prefer Erlang or Go.

But to be clear, "it'll block Node's single thread!" is not the reason for explicit await. The reason for explicit await is to guarantee that after calling a function foo(), only the state that foo() changes could have changed. Whereas after awaiting on an async function bar(), or any other promise, literally any state-mutating code in the entire application might have run.

Obviously plenty of languages have this problem and deal with it, usually with locks like in Go and Java, or by banning shared mutable state entirely and only allowing message-passing for communication between concurrent "lines of logic" like in Erlang. (As far as I understand Go basically tries to get the best of both worlds by strongly encouraging message-passing, with locks intended only for advanced situations like custom concurrent data structures.)

But there's no way for Node to change to either of those models without breaking every single nontrivial piece of code ever written in it. And apparently Rust intentionally chose not to go with those models because they require a runtime and make compatibility with C very difficult, well-known advantages over Go.
I'm ready this book right now, and it's great. https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obj...
Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison
Any response from Microsoft?
What if you carried meat then carried lettuce in a reusable bag?
Yeah, he really nails Tom Cruise's mannerisms when he shakes his head at 1:27.
Having enjoyed both the Amiga 500 and the Atari 520ST back in the day, I'm left wondering: how come that there never was a comeback of that form factor? Mechanical keyboards and small-factor computers (Mini ITX, NUC etc) are both popular, if someone launched a mechanical keyboard with integrated PC case on the back I think it may have a shot at being successful.

There are cases made in this style and they are compatible either with "Amiga Reloaded" and similar Amiga-compatible motherboards, or with SBCs like the Raspberry PI [1][2][3], but I couldn't find a similar product that can use standard PC components (except for the Kickstarter mentioned below);

There was one case with integrated keyboard made by a designer in UK and launched on Kickstarter a few years ago, this one could accept PC components but it had laptop-style chicklet keys, rather than mechanical switches [4].

Later, the same designer tried to launch a similar case, this time with mechanical keys, but the kickstarter unfortunately did not reach its goal [5]

[1] http://amigablogs.net/feed/2016/04/amiga-ultimate-retro-styl...

[2] https://amigastore.eu/en/468-brand-new-amiga-1200-cases-from...

[3] https://www.a1200.net/new-amiga-1200-cases/

[4] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/505470364/the-x500-plus...

[5] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/505470364/the-x500-pro-...

Edit: if anyone knows of a case like that last one, please send me a link!

Edit II: I have added the 2 Kickstarter links
Don't forget the damage plastics do to marine life. For almost any shape, type, and size of plastic, there is an animal in the ocean that will mistake it for food.

In the case of plastic bags, they seem to be commonly mistaken for squid and jellyfish, eaten by the albatross and sea turtles, to name just two species.

So while the bag-free aesthetic on land is an improvement, the potential for downstream benefits is even greater.
check out https://designacademy.io/ and https://refactoringui.com/
They are overpriced, but Apple cables have never failed me where others have, so for the peace of mind it is really worth it to me. A couple of anecdotes below.

A few months ago, I had a stock Lenovo laptop charger failing. I thought something was up with the physical port on the laptop, because the power button was blinking when I was plugging it in, but even after an hour of being plugged in, it still refused to turn on. As a last ditch attempt I tried my work-provided MBP cable, and it turned on after a minute. However, since it was a work laptop and not a personal one, it could've been that whoever used the laptop before abused the cable endlessly, so I attributed it to that.

Most recently, it happened with a personal device of mine, Oculus Quest. After a month of use, it refused to charge at all using the provided cable. I tried plugging it in a bajillion different ways, nothing worked. I thought it was a headset issue, because I used the cable very gently and only at home, and people reported that problem occurring and that resetting the headset might help. Obviously, it didn't resolve the issue in my scenario. Plugged it into my personal MBP cable, it started charging immediately.
You can be both of those and still be an expert