skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't agree that the distinction is so clear, unfortunately. There are people with agendas on both sides. For-profit software obviously needs to make money, so whatever people are more likely to pay for is prioritized, even if it's not what a typical user wants the most. Developers of free software are often people with full-time jobs and limited free time, so whatever is more fun to work on and/or matches their skillset is prioritized, which, again, might not be that annoying bug that everybody wants fixed, but which would involve re-writing half the code. I am generalizing, of course: VLC is one of the counter-examples.
I don't know. But if it was weather, then Finland, Sweden, and Estonia would be just as high.
Meanwhile in another study, "meek" parkers found to have lower blood pressure from all this "excessive" walking.
You're a good person.
Most of it is going to the drivers.
Author/maintainer of Byobu here... Tell me more about your "byobu crash". Can you point me to any bug reports in either bugs.launchpad.net/byobu or github.com/dustinkirkland/byobu ? Thanks! @DustinKirkland
Ergonomic superiority, RSI and why I bought a split keyboard
Psychology of Typography
Hopefully I can! WARP uses a protocol called WireGuard to secure your Internet traffic. Your encrypted traffic flows over that protocol to the closest Cloudflare data center before it is released onto the public Internet.

WARP+ takes that one step further. Rather than releasing your traffic directly onto the Internet, we use all the data we have from our Argo product [1] to route your traffic to _another_ Cloudflare data center via the route over the Internet with the best possible performance. That data center will be closer to your traffic's destination, hopefully improving the performance. In effect your traffic will bypass Internet congestion and slow links with the goal of better time-to-first-byte performance.

1- https://www.cloudflare.com/products/argo-smart-routing/
Indeed, nature re-creates it own equilibrium. However, glaciers are much more than "large amounts of ice" to be looked at: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-are-the-effects-of-...
1. Low skilled search is unlikely to be about anything affecting life, or career. Life, and career meanwhile are affected by people who know what they are looking for.

2. Low skilled level will be different in 5 years from today. I'm old enough to remember when people asked me to push 'on' button on a computer, just in case.
"All the ground work"... only needs a short sentence. Is it a graphics library? A parser? A command line tool? A sorting algorithm? A heat equation solver? Oh, it's a tcp library.
As someone who has had to walk through broken glass with Xilinx toolchain I can garantee that you do not want any tool/utility created or 'maintained' by this company.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190925010232/https://www.apple...
And energy. Hydro-power generation is big in mountainous areas.
DepC: graph based CMDB and rules engine to compute QOS with timeseries
I'm not sure anyone is knocking the service WeWork provides. We have an office in there, managed to negotiate a great discount. Staff are happy in there. I wouldn't invest in it though.
> who denies that the virus HIV causes AIDS

That's understandable.

He supported an alternative theory.

But he was already 50 years years old when he published his first essay on HIV, and over 60 when he started the campaign against HIV/AIDS correlation.

And most of his theories have been disproved by following studies, his first publication on the subject is date 1987, Montagnier discovered HIV in 1986 and it was taken for granted as a fact years later.

The best moments of Duesberg career had already gone (like 30 years before).

Montagnier himself late in his life, at the age of 77, gave a speech that basically supported the validity of homeopathy.

I bet it's more an aging related problem than a credibility problem.

BTW Duesberg was wrong on HIV but not on the other topics he studied.

I have no reason of doubting your warnings on Peterson, but it may be possible, as in the Duesberg and Montagnier cases that he might be wrong on something and right on something else.
“Security of organisations should be done in layers” and each layer makes breaking into your (whole) organisation harder, but comes with friction for your staff.
Mind boggling. You can see the waviness in the thin stainless steel. Can it really stand up to re-entry? I guess it is more like a balloon that stiffens with internal pressure. I haven't followed the project very closely.
Today, if you suggest that Snowden is a plant; how he might still be working for a government agency like the NSA, CIA or State Department; how he was a black ops to see how Americans would react: you get dismissed as paranoid. Every time I bring this up, I get downvoted to grey. Can we have an honest discussion on this?

Guy makes six figured, works remotely as an NSA contractor from Hawaii, suddenly had a moral conscience, somehow had multiple laptops with classified data, leaves his smoking hot girlfriend to meet journalists from The Guardian and Der Spegiel and gave them evidence that was composed of poorly made slides; almost all of which have been released heavily redacted -- all have been heavily dismissed by the US government, Yahoo, Google, Verizon and others. Honestly, the 9/11 truth evidence feels like it should have been more convincing, and yet every media agency took this as gospel.

If the revelations are taken at face value, why couldn't it also be possible this was all just a test by intelligence agencies? Companies have strengthened their general security and the general population hasn't .. really cared. Both of those are valuable pieces of information gathered by the government.

Look at COINTELPRO and Operation Mockingbird. At the time, if you had said such programs existed, it would have been viewed as crazy conspiracy. But they did exist and intelligence agencies in the US government has manipulated their own people in past decades.

Either Snowden is incredibly clever and lucky, or he's a stage show. He should be in the situation Assange is in now. It's difficult to believe he's still in an unknown location, hiding out in Russia. The whole story stinks and I feel like no one wants to have a rational talk about the alternative: that it may be more manipulation and testing to show that Americans don't really care about surveillance.
Keep in mind that's the model that worked when unit economics made it possible to capture outsized profits.

Think of Facebook, their incremental infrastructure costs for delivering messaging and feed services to an additional user are negligible (significantly less than a dollar per quarter) compared to the revenue they're making per user (dozens of dollars per quarter). In that cost model, grow at all costs then monetize makes sense.

For Uber, Lyft, and WeWork, there are no economies of scale (ignoring
the fixed R&D costs). Twice the amount of rides given will have twice the driver costs, and the drivers will always petition to get a bigger slice of the pie.
What part of the quote identifies him? From my reading it sounds generic enough that it could apply to a number of abusive CEOs.

Other users have identified the company as Mixpanel, so I'm curious about what specific hints I had overlooked.
A bit ironic Party's browser extension says it keeps privacy in mind only to make it available for Chrome exclusively, a browser that is no friend to privacy.
The evidence that any particular accusation was accurate was very thin.

Perhaps more importantly, the accusations were impossible to defend against.

None of this means the events didn't happen. They might have. But the process was fundamentally unfair, and we need a better way to deal with uncertainty.

Lining up on party lines -- a kind of "vote for the truth" -- is ridiculously unfair to the accused. We need to agree on a process, including standards of evidence. When that process plays out, we should be able to basically come together on the outcome.
Under what circumstances can you imagine being given a vote on mass surveillance?
She didn’t die
Dark Mode for Hacker News
But I can falsify the assumption about the effectiveness of oversight with cases from overreach that happened in the past.

So oversight probably isn't effective enough for agencies like the NSA and I am reliant on first hand information such as provided by Edward Snowden. Which have shown that it happened again.
It would be so easy to come up with excuses for taking that kind of money. The guy has all my respect.
And he is being replaced by a former Marlboro employee. I am sure the public will feel so much safer knowing that the advertising will be handled by a Big Tobacco veteran moving forward.
Does WARP block access to websites that Cloudflare has specifically denied a platform to their other services? It only makes sense that if they refused to do business with a website because they are "an environment that revels in violating [the spirit of anti-hate law]" that they would also prevent end-users from accessing it under the same grounds, no?
> you can compress them with better algorithms on the computer

is that always true?
what if I have dozen's of pdf's which are similar and compressed (most pdfs are)? wouldn't de-duplication also reduce the size? I mean with millions/billions/trillions of files of the same format.
It's a clickbaitey title at best on failed Yahoo.com meant to stir up hits and clicks based on the over hyped vaping trend... News media is just as crap and full of lies and misinformation as politics, and it's gonna eventually erode everyone's trust. Not much cause for panic.

It perplexes me though why they're using the term e-cigarettes and vaping as the same thing one moment, then as different things at the next moment, and why they didn't detail the the ban is "temporary" rather than how they are portraying it.

None of the media outlets discussing this subject are dealing with actual and responsible facts, and they're shooting themselves in the foot by not simply conveying facts rather than speculation and inaccuracies.
Thank you so much for what you've done. VLC is amazing.
But going by the article, "suicide was rare, and among young people, almost unknown" until contact with outsiders. So I don't think it's just isolation.
Is it?

My understanding is the Right to Be Forgotten predates GDPR by a fairly long period.
That's right. But while the 1st amendment is very popular in America, across the parties, many people outside of America think it's bonkers.

I happen to be one of them. And I also think that freedom of speech must be protected.
Outline: https://outline.com/XZ7M3t
I wonder if there would be a way to allow someone to cap their amount they want to pay for a ride and the same for the driver ... I wonder if being able to schedule ahead of time and having a driver accept an exact job hours ahead would be interesting.
Because there's a large capital (and learning curve) upstart requirement. It's almost like you missed this: "(once you start developing the resource)"

Additionally, tar sands are very marginal economically. Arguably not profitable right now. Fracking tight oil is cheaper, and even that is not being pursued as vigorously as it was when oil prices were higher.

And there are environmental regulations that get in the way of oil shale/kerogen extraction. And for good reason.
I don't have any good advice, but just wanted to say you're definitely not alone. I left the tech industry due to these feelings and observations.
Altria (Phillip Morris) owns 35% of the company already. They've been part of Big Tobacco for a while.
Thanks but no thanks Matthew. Cloudflare cannot be trusted. We'll use Wireguard instead.
What you're recounting seems (from the article) to be the Canadian government's side of the story. The 12th paragraph of the article begins the Inuit's description of what happened.

> Most Inuit look back very differently on this period. Their version begins shortly after World War II, when the US and Canada jointly established a line of radar stations across the Arctic in order to spy on the Soviets and monitor the skies for potential attacks via the North Pole. The Canadian government, keen to prevent the US from claiming sovereignty over this potentially mineral- and natural gas–rich area, hastily established towns and forced the Inuit to settle in them. Older Inuit told me they remember armed police officers arriving at their camps unannounced and ordering everyone to leave. Sled dogs—even healthy ones—were slaughtered before their owners’ eyes.

> The government concedes that thousands of Inuit children, some as young as five, were sent to boarding, or “residential,” schools, where they were cut off from their families, given Christian names and ID numbers, punished for speaking their native Inuktitut language, required to wear Western clothes, and taught a Canadian curriculum that had no relevance to the world they’d been born into. Many were also beaten and raped by their teachers. Some went to the schools willingly, but many reluctant parents, informed that if they didn’t send their children off, they’d be denied government welfare benefits or credit from fur traders, surrendered them in tears.

> Memories of these horrors haunt the lives of older Inuit today. [...]
Can you have an option to do that? I imagine in some cases it might be better for people (in certain regions or roles) where their IP being hidden is a core component of "Privacy First".
>whether or not tech and the modern internet are a force for good

People. Only people are a force for good or evil.

Tech is true neutral ... or maybe Chaotic Neutral.
I really hope they can expose the underlying BSD interface to users/developers.
Smart Layout: The biggest thing to happen to Sketch since Symbols
I wrote and use regularly similar macros in C++ context.

They are less advanced on some areas, but more advanced on some.

Particularly nice features:

* a structured log indented by stack trace depth (fully portable, put a simple macro at function start, will log start and any exit)

* log any expression: `somemacro(foo.bar())` will log `foo.bar() = 42`

* log scopes like functions

* with possibility to jump to source code line on one click or keypress

* browse the log with structured jumps (like step into function vs advance one line, back and forth)

...just by generating a text format that is parsed by common pre-existing tools (namely emacs compilation-mode and a few other short settings).

I've been planning to share that for a moment. It will eventually appear on https://github.com/fidergo-stephane-gourichon?tab=repositori...

I wrote a similar set of macros for C, see my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21071497 on eerimoq's "Show HN" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21040649
And how do you balance those? With the right to be forgotten and a court decision whether it applies in the special case.

Your solution is "give everyone unlimited access", but that's not a balancing, that's an extreme position.
It passes on your IP address if the website you're visiting is using CF. See for yourself:

https://icanhazip.com - on CF network
https://ifconfig.me - not on CF network
Also, (forgive me if I get the jargon wrong here...) isn't the vaping health crisis the article mentions due to sketchy THC vaping solutions that have Vitamin E oil in them? Not Juul's nicotine stuff?

I.e. because THC isn't water-soluble, it has to be suspended/dissolved in some oil-based thing. Lipids + lungs = BAD.
I've sent this article around to my friends because it's one of the most accurate portrayals I've seen in mainstream media about the experiences I had working in tech. If you haven't encountered these types of personalities, consider yourself fortunate.
Show HN: Make your own beats for your videos, right here in the browser
Project plans and estimates are usually fantasies made only to give executives a sense of control. For people who are actually trying to get something done in the world, I think the better thing to do is give them actual control via short-cycle processes and frequent delivery.

At my last startup, we got very good at releasing early and often. What would have been projects elsewhere got broken down into very small releasable units; our average story size was under a day. Very occasionally my cofounder would have us ballpark estimate two different batches of work using arbitrary points, just so he could get a sense of the relative cost of two paths. But we never estimated in terms of dates.

This worked for us because he really took advantage of the speed of iteration. Almost everything we built came with a question. In the next user test, would users understand it? Would they want to use it? Did they react as expected? When we sent some traffic to it, did people engage? Did the right people engage? Did they return to use it later, indicating value? Etc, etc.

The answers to those questions would drive what we did next. Because our goal wasn't to build features, but to make things happen in the real world. And once you get used to continuous learning, it's obvious that planning too far in advance is wasteful. All of the brilliant ideas you had a month ago weren't based on what you learned in the last month. Eventually, sensible people learn to stop producing a lot of plans that never get fully used. And, of course, to stop asking for estimates on them.
Is this news to people?

A decade ago, as an intern at Google I was chatting with another intern about this. She described exactly this sort of system. Google had bought up the ad rights to an entire cable network across a few states in return for the data on what channel each TV was on, and if it was on or off.

Based on that, they built profiles of how many people lived in each house, what their likely age/demographics were, what times they watched TV, etc, and targeted ads so that you and your neighbor watching the same channel got different ads.

She wasn't speaking hypothetically. This was the team she worked on.
Thank you for taking time to share your perspective. However, I remain skeptical.

It's true that a website using Cloudflare is more independent than a Facebook page, in that in the former case, the company can take their domain to another provider. But my idea of an independent Web is a large number of websites depending on a large number of high-quality hosting providers. The latter number will inevitably be smaller, but shouldn't be single-digit. That would lead to too much potential for abuse of power.

Also, the more sites are using a single provider with its black-box algorithms and heuristics, the more potential there is for bad consequences for innocent users when those things misfire. That's what worries me about the bot-fighting feature you launched on Monday.

To respond specifically to part of what you said:

> The concern was that the challenges of being online would get so hard that individual websites would give up and just move to run Facebook pages.

I don't think I understand how Cloudflare actually helps here. I think the average bar, karaoke DJ (I love karaoke), spa, or other small business that might just use a Facebook page would be served just as well by the kind of hosting provider that gives your website a single IP address pointing to a single machine. Are DDoS attacks and bots really that big of a problem? If so, I haven't run into them in the 16 years that I was the programmer and sysadmin for a small company (admittedly, online services are that company's business). Maybe we just didn't make the right enemies? Now, maybe small web hosting providers could make it even easier to set up a new website, but Cloudflare doesn't do anything about that problem anyway. If the concern is performance, maybe we need better alternatives to WordPress and Drupal, and more local hosting providers, so the website for small businesses can be closer to their mostly-local customers without using a CDN.
It's not about the guy's name, what's important is how people's perceptions have changed (which I would generalise as from scornful dismissal to resigned acceptance)
On thinkpads those can be tightened pretty easily.

Well, they could be tightened back when I carried a few around.

I am (perhaps incorrectly) assuming that your hinges are loose and not actually breaking apart.
Respect, c’est tout ce que j’ai a dire :)
Not just some employee, but "chief growth officer at the Marlboro maker"...
Batteries, perhaps, but it does not actually take very long to start up a cell production line (and other aspects, such as raw materials). If given the certainty of policy, accommodating regulators, and federal financing support, the lag between demand outstripping supply and new supply coming online may only be 2 or 3 years.

And for electricity, the utilities actually need the extra demand because of energy efficiency reducing lighting costs and distributed solar and subsidized wind providing occasional gluts. Since EVs can fairly easily be set to charge (most the time) on a schedule when electricity is most abundant, this is good for everyone.
Sad to hear that. I'm super interested in having software like this and would even pay for it.

However, I don't believe I am skilled enough to be able to contribute to its development. Maybe someday.
I have someone in Florida who likes to sign up for things with my email. Uber, Door Dash, dating sites.

Fun fact - if you sign up with an email address and password and then someone later uses Door Dash with the android authentication on their phone they can log in to the same account without needing credentials. That was a fun email to write to support.
> The arbiters of the internet? You don't think that's maybe a little melodramatic?

As someone who has browsed sites "powered by cloudflare" over Tor and been tossed into an infinite "are you human" loop, it certainly doesn't feel melodramatic.

They've also exercised power over websites based on moral outrage. Perhaps 99.999% of people agree with the morals behind this decision, and maybe it's even the right decision, but it's still an arbitrary decision made by Cloudflare.

They are also bound by US law, and other entities bound by US law have been forced to enable the exact same forms of record keeping that Cloudflare says they will keep turned off.

Cloudflare is not a neutral party. They don't even advertise themselves as a neutral party.
I'm curious as to why you call the package "DIL" instead of "DIP". I've never heard them called "DIL" before.
Wes Anderson's Colour Palettes
Since no one has mentioned it yet, the etymology of the phrase:

The name "takotsubo syndrome" comes from the Japanese word takotsubo "octopus trap", because the left ventricle of the heart takes on a shape resembling an octopus trap when affected by this condition.
> My life as a conservative is much better without social networks where they censor me non-stop

I doubt you have high enough conservative clout to be targeted for censorship. What examples do you have of Facebook, Google and Instagram specifically censoring you for your views?

> Sooner or later I will leave Twitter too, it is a matter of finding another social network, free and open and nurtured by people.

"Free and open" means a place where people of all views can have civilized conversations.
Problem is that even though the Juul cartridges are proprietary, that hasn't stopped people from making Juul-compatible off-brand products. There are of course other concerns besides the vaporised oils.
What you need is something like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80713 that lets you make the <iframe> act more like an autosizing <div> than a fixed-size frame. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1771 is a suggestion for adding this sizing into CSS, but there's concern about the ability to leak information through the size of the container.
While this isn't great, any form of broadcast/cable that can be controlled with a DVR makes this a non-issue, as I'm skipping commercials anyway.

When ads on TV become unskippable, or continue to get more firmly embedded in content as with Stranger Things, that's when it gets unacceptable for me.