skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upvoted you for a thought-provoking perspective, but I think you're wrong historically. Most totalitarian governments fail on the battlefield, or they fail when the charismatic leader dies and his heirs are not so charismatic. Think of Genghis Khan, Napoleon, the empires that fell during WW1, the Axis powers in WW2, Libya post-Gaddafi, or Saddam Hussein. Totalitarianism seems to be an effective way to rapidly modernize a population to take advantage of already-discovered technological advances, and then to mobilize the population for war. It fails heavily at actually waging war, where the life-or-death competition between powers leads to a rapidly shifting reality that totalitarian governments cannot keep up with, because totalitarianism requires a near-total distortion of reality in order to keep the ruling clique in power. Additionally, liberal democracies often have a deeper bench of talent and technological developments waiting in the wings; totalitarianism requires the extermination of these institutions as potential threats to the regime, but liberal democracy cultivates these institutions in times of peace and then can draw on them in times of war. Witness how quickly the allies deployed radar, sonar, codebreaking, convoy systems, fire control computers, mass production, strategic bombing, and nuclear weapons during WW2: almost all of these inventions existed within Nazi Germany (some of them were discovered there), but their widespread development was blocked by Hitler's disfavor or inattention, and so they never got the resources they needed.

I suspect you're thinking specifically of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations during the 90s. There's a conflating factor there though: communism breaks up under internal pressures without an external enemy. (This is a pattern also replicated within many Latin American countries, as well as within smaller-scale communes within the United States.) Communism is one form of totalitarianism, but it's not the only one, and it's not the one currently practiced by China (which switched over to state capitalism in the 70s).
It didn't, but I ended up finding it in the settings. Cheers!
The Chinese consulate in Houston put out a statement condemning the tweet.

You have a track record of China using the heavy hand to dictate the messaging of corporations and individual citizens.

No coordinated message in China goes through without the explicit or implicit consent of the government, even if it starts "from the people". It's not hard to make the connection here.
Cool changes! Any plans to ever add Linux support? That’s a dealbreaker for me.
I need to backup both Linux and Windows machines. I wanted to use B2, but restic seems not ideal on Windows.
I get stuck on stuff like this constantly, and both the symptom and cause lists feel very accurate.
How they handle the large number of automated WordPress version updates might have fit the title. But it doesn't appear to be mentioned.
https://docs.n8n.io/#/faq?id=why-do-you-call-n8n-open-source...

Don't lie about being open source. That's what you're doing: lying.

https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/30/Its-not-okay-to-pretend-y...

Bullshit. You are being a bad actor in the technology ecosystem and I'm calling you out for it. This behavior is completely and utterly unacceptable. You're gaslighting the open source software community. You may be doublethinking your way into being able to sleep at night, but at the end of the day this is an abhorrent thing for you to do. Even the proponents of the commons clause acknowledge that it's not open source.

Cut it out.

Your software is "source available" and that's fine. What's not fine is gaslighting your users.
Isn't the culture more like: There were many attempts to violently force the political union of a large group of people for the ambitions of a warlord, but in the end, it never working out? The provinces have also always acted fairly independently, which is still the case today right?

AFAIK the culture is more like loyalty to your family and village, and "Heaven is high and the emperor is far away". Heck even the languages of china are mutually unintelligible. Maybe in the end, china should split up into several separate countries, like the khmer region split up into thailand, cambodia, laos and vietnam. Maybe it should be split up into beijing-land, shanghai-land, guangzhou-land, tibet and xinjiang-land.
Linux kernel devs did exactly the same: using jitter entropy for randomness. If it is OK for kernel devs, then it should be OK for VC.
Build a game. If you build a good audience, you can automate almost all the work.
Exactly, I work on at a popular tourist destination for a lot of Chinese and HK residents.

I have had conversations about this over drinks with quite a few of them and the general consensus is that people will die, and all of them hope to be as far away from it as possible when it happens.
No, they are not THE platforms. Billions of people are not on Twitter and do not follow the mindless babble.

Go ahead and downvote because facts make you angry.
For national security sake all routers should be required to support open firmwares.
The fact that African Americans are the most likely people by race to be stripped of their right to representation and political expression by a wide margin.

To clarify - this is via them losing access to representation by being deemed a felon, and a lot more African Americans are sentenced with drug possession or intent to distribute than any other racial group proportionally.
There is a difference between "things that did happen concerning a thing that is going to happen" and "hypothetical things that may or may not happen".

This coverage is about US employers en masse firing employees unless they censor themselves on social media. This is not a thing that has happened. This is not coverage about the two specific incidents that actually occurred. It is speculation.

The person quoted in the article is from the American Enterprise Institute, which is a think tank. This is not someone in charge of setting policy at any US company. This is someone sitting on the sidelines and making guesses.
I was under the understanding that words generally don't rise to the legal definition of assault (at least in the US).
LOOOL I wish my residential water bill (for a normal sized house and very small yard) wasn't $100+, but it has been for MANY years.
And yet they still have no consumer products in China, and still redirect search to Hong Kong, and still do not participate in any censorship efforts.

This should be applauded and supported, since it's pretty much what people want others like Blizzard to do as well. Google is much closer to a gold standard to follow with their approach to China than they are to being lumped in with the NBA or Blizzard.
> I don't see why such a fuss

Snowflake got triggered
You know, I really think this would work. If Google penalised non-accessible sites and provided clear guidance on how to make sites accessible - companies and devs would take notice, and make the changes needed.

In a way it's a bit frightening that Google have that power, but it does have the opportunity to be used for good.
IF you're this spooked about a computer in a car, let me tell you about what runs the airplanes and ATC's...

Any car past the year 2000 probably has a computer in it, and virtually all modern cars have them. Your 2013 truck or 2016 sedan are all using computers to balance gas, traction, gear shifting, and other critical functions.
Yes, any advice would also be very appreciated from my side.

Great to hear that the docs are helpful! They were actually the main reason why I did not launch on Product Hunt/Hackernews earlier. It was very important for me to have something in place which is at least reasonable. Nothing more annoying than bad docs. Anyway, still a lot on my list to add documentation for. But it will get better, I promise!
Millimeter-Scale Location Tracking
Depends on the org. Highly regulated places like self hosting because keeping data within your own network removes a lot of the legwork for corporate acquisitions processes.

If you run a SASS and a regulated business wants to use you, they need to process a whole slew of items:

1. Compliance - are you PCI/SOC/HIPPA compliant? When was your last audit? What were the results?

2. Legal - contracts, business continuity clauses, indemnity, liability around data, etc

3. Security - when was your last penetration test? Do you have a security team? What is your security posture?

The list goes on and there is overlap between different corporate concerns. Keeping things on-prem removes many requirements in exchange for taking on the maintainable burden of a product.
Remember that those who lie about their projects being open source are deliberately gaslighting users because they have a vested interest in tapping into the open source community without giving it the respect that comes with the title. Do not support software like this.

https://drewdevault.com/2018/10/30/Its-not-okay-to-pretend-y...

https://docs.n8n.io/#/faq?id=why-do-you-call-n8n-open-source...
“Punching down” itself is a concept they would, and should, make fun of.

Well, it's been well established that they would make fun of anything. I'm not arguing that. You tell the writers what they should be doing though.

That term is just a way of framing speech that you disagree with in order to censor it for being anti-virtuous.

No it's not. You're making a lot of false assumptions about what I said based on zero evidence. If you don't understand what I'm saying, that's one thing, but don't put words in my mouth.
There is no compromise with totalitarianism.

They either allow people to be free, or people die fighting for their freedom. There is no other way.
Does anything besides Overcast actually respond to chapter markers?

...says the guy (me) writing a self-hostable podcast platform.
This article really underlines how important it is to work at the right place early in your career, or else you'll get railroaded by bad habits and judgement reinforced by a lack of guidance if you're not an intuitive wunderkind with discipline. I'm 4 years into my career and I sense more than ever that I still fall into these traps.
I really think with a proper full time job working long hours

Why would you be working "long hours" at your full-time job?
I will never understand why people use a UI for git. 99% of the time people who do that don't understand how git works. When something deviates from the normal workflow they struggle.
Name a country that's never done it. Because I think taking criticism from them would be appropriate. Or at least someone who hasn't had an asshole ancestor in the last, oh... I don't know... 3 generations?

Let's just discuss what your ancestors did to my ancestors! Because holy crap! That'll definitely fix our current day problems! No better cure for the present than to yell at each other about things that happened a few hundred years ago! Maybe if we turn it into a card game, we can have tournaments and see who's the most oppressed every year. As a Polish-Jew, I wonder where I'm going to be in the rankings in historical oppression. Oh wait, it doesn't matter. I'm going to focus on today instead.
Addiction is a need for connection that isn't fulfilled.
Need peace of mind? Play some ego shooter.
Can't get hugged? Use drugs.
Looking for appreciation? Go for Facebook Instagram Twitter etc.
I'm addicted to gaming. Having a keyboard under my fingers gives me a high. Why? Well people don't know loyalty. Authorities have been abusive. We're told our world is dieing and still politics is unwilling to change anything (feels like it at least).
Nothing meaningful to do for a kid. Except maybe go protest for a better future.
And even greta seems to be a tool. Which is pretty cynical.
google made the term popular. there is a book on it that kinda expands on what it entails.
New and interesting things often start out completely unregulated. As people start to understand the disruptive potential, regulations will eventually emerge. It's a way to identify early opportunities, nothing more.

The thought of specifically seeking out unethical opportunities is actually kind of funny though.
I really miss Backblaze. I was a customer for years and years and actually was fortunate (I guess?) enough to have to use them to recover around a terabyte once but when I switched to using a Chromebox as my daily driver (then a Chromebox 2) I found I was turning my Windows machine on once a month just to keep kosher with the Backblaze servers.

Such a great service and I still always look forward to the emails, stuff like the drive failure rates is always a neat read!
You seem to have deliberately missed the point
Which RSS reader do you suggest?
For selfhosted folks there is great faker library.

https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/
Is there pressure to work more than that while clocking 20 or less? I imagine overachievers could distort your expectations of how much gets done in 20 hours.
>The NFL suspended Colin Kaepernick for kneeling during the national anthem

False. He chose to use a clause in his contract that let him leave the 49ers early.
Sure you can, but it might take you 2-3x as long to get the same results as you could have got by using modern JS features and APIs that aren't supported in older browsers, and it might take you 10-20x as long if you also have to reinvent the wheel for everything instead of using a few good libraries. For most projects in the real world, that is not going to be a trade-off worth making.
Yeah, now it's "Rocket Girls 101" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Girls_101

Probably censorship, but including "篮球" in the query would make it a lot more obvious whether the Houston Rockets are suppressed intentionally or not.
Wow, took over two hours to download/set up: 2019 iMac (with hard drive) x 300mps download speed
The design is different, but I wouldn't say it's worse than github. I actually prefer sourcehut's design to github's. If nothing else, there are some undeniable benefits to sourcehut's style, such as faster page loading time and less memory usage.

How would your criticism change if you knew who you were talking to? Why not just always assume the developer of anything will be reading HN comments that mention their thing, and form your comments as such? Developers are human, after all.
Why would anybody play sports then?
The biggest issue is that there is no opposition to the BJP - which won the election with a massive majority. This is never good in a democracy.
But Modi's policies have been abysmal failures - demonetization killed the rural economy and actually ended up being a boon for the black money hoarders ( people ended up converting their black money to white).
99% of money was returned back to the reserve bank, shows the dismal failure of the experiment.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/finance/af...

The economy is dragging

https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/opinion-how-to-fix-the-economy-...

The sad part is Modi goes around touting the India growth story,spinning fabrications,people are seeing through this but unfortunately there are no options.
Even then, many of these metrics will prefer "the rat the cat the dog bit chased escaped" over "the dog bit the cat that chased the rat that escaped". They are very, very rough measures, to be used only in case of emergency.

> the language of conservatives is simpler than that of liberals?

Times have changed.
Decoding the Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculator: Antikythera Mechanism
I'd like to say you're wrong... but anti free speech legislation is growing like mad in Europe. :/

(Of course it's always under the guise of "harmony". F*ck, we're beginning to resemble the PRC.)
Probably not. They’ve said repeatedly that unlimited storage for $5 wouldn’t be a sustainable business model if they supported NAS. For that there are third party solutions that support backing up to B2.
He's talking about China, don't be obtuse, America, while being horrendous abroad, is no where near as bad as China would be in Americas position if the treatment of their own subjects is any indication.
Appropriately enough, the term you’re looking for is kowtowing (not towing cows), a Chinese term for a deep bow of respect.
The irony of using a shortened link in a comment on cyber security.
It is spoken of, but it is often dismissed as protectionism.

I don't agree with Trump on pretty much anything except for his stance on Chinese trade.

There is an imbalance that needs to be addressed that is being completely ignored by the progressive candidates.

Not saying it will make me vote for the guy in 2020, but it will be a key issue for many others.
Lot of truth to the funding sources for HK protests originating in the west even if the protestors believe in what they are fighting for.
The "substantive objective measurements" don't even need to be debunked, the article does that itself. My example wasn't to illustrate "no discrimination doesn't happen" it was to illustrate the fact that maybe, the relative wealth of different geographic areas, combined with racial demographics and crime rates, could have more to do with policing practices that JUST skin color. I specifically didn't bring up any of my multicultural friends or whatever, because my argument is not "I didn't see anything therefore it isn't there" but "fewer cops mean fewer people get stopped". Urban density which means that 1 cop can cover more people, and higher crime rate which means more cops are likely out on the street instead of on traffic duty, equate to more people getting stopped by police.

Go ahead and reduce my argument to a strawman and put words into my mouth, but don't act like you're contributing to the conversation.
The EPA fact sheet on PFAS : https://www.epa.gov/pfas/basic-information-pfas

Can be filtered out of your drinking water with a reverse osmosis filter. If you live in the Bay Area its a useful thing to have, and if you're concerned about your tap water you can send a sample here: https://torrentlab.com/drinking-and-storm-water-quality-test...
"Second, sometimes different cultures simply have fundamentally different values."

Communism is not a culture. This isn't a
So what the city is saying is more people crap on the streets because there is less shelter ? Wow, color me shocked the reason we have problems with homeless people is that they have no shelter. These geniuses are sure to solve this problem !
Point 6 could be rephrased to be more clear. Experts are great at providing original solutions, but they may not always see problems worthy of solutions. By looking around at existing attempted solutions they can estimate the gap between stated and actual problems from their proposed solutions and instead minimize that gap with a better solution.
Well, I wasn't expecting to see the airport I'm sitting at in the news today...

Slightly related, but there is a big issue with new aircraft hangar fire suppression systems because of the regulation of foam now. Regulators don't want anyone to use foam but there isn't a better solution out there yet.
One misstep of the American education system is the lack of attention paid to Chinese/Asian history. I believe a big part of the indifference and ignorance of American citizens to the China problem, let alone policy makers is that they don't understand how Chinese people think. This is evident by the blunders by Bush and Clinton that brought us to where we are today with regards to China's rising hegemony.

Our idea of Chinese people has come to be shaped by Hollywood and media portraying them as weak, geeky, and innocent when in reality the Chinese mindset is extremely subtle, resourceful, calculated, opportunistic, and oftentimes underhanded. These are the characteristics that have launched the Chinese into the forefront and should be understood from anyone that has studied even a lick of Chinese history. Armed with this knowledge, we will be better off in protecting our democratic interests in the long term.
“Girls Are Also People of the Holy Qur’an”
According to random people online that speak Mandarin, the statement the NBA released on Chinese social media was DRASTICALLY different from their English statement. Paraphrasing slightly, the English statement was along the lines of "we're sorry if he hurt your feelings". The Mandarin one was more like "we're sorry that these wrong and despicable statements were made".
I'll leave you with this. An older gay friend was involved in gay rights stuff back in the 1970's. He said there were two kinds of activists in the organizations. Those that wanted to achieve goals and those that wanted to involve themselves in internecine politics. His experience is the latter win.

I suspect that's what's going on at SO.
An autocratic government is inherently antithetical to the Rule of Law. They are mutually exclusive.
"Kill all men". There's plenty of generalizations, insults and derogatory statements against groups, it's just not a problem if those groups aren't perceived as oppressed. Change a word or two and voila: hate speech.
This is the problem with only having 4-5 media companies as well, you have a point.

Every media organization aligned against Saddam when the intelligence agencies (US govt) signaled it, with 0 evidence.
LipSurf... Great name. Works great! :-)

Your plugin works much better than Catalina's voice control for me, and handles periods, commas, pauses, etc, all very well. Awesome tutorials. Love the cat on the keyboard. All really impressive. Also in my brief test, it didn't slow down my computer like voice control.

I'm just amazed that Apple can't get these basics of dictation right on an accessibility product, but I also have looked at videos where people had better results than I did. Need to test some more, but am keeping LipSurf in mind if I can't succeed with voice control.
Software that works with 75M users? Oh wow I gotta click on this!
I know that, I'm just wondering what the point of GitHub Desktop is.

I use Sublime Merge, but no Git GUI I've used comes close to tortoisehg for mercurial. Tortoisehg is actually superior to and a comprehensive replacement for the command line. I wish something like it existed for git, if not for me then for the newbie-ish people I need to instruct on project workflows.
So does this mean San Franciscans should avoid drinking tap water?
>I considered them,

By which you mean, you decided without actually asking any of them or doing any investigation that a certain group of people don’t appreciate visual art.

The vast majority of people using screen readers have some degree of vision. I would not assume that they have no appreciation of visual art.

The ADA is needed because people have so many assumptions about people with disabilities that they don’t bother to verify.
For some reason, a lot of people consider it a problem only when the consequence is brought on you by the government.

Somehow corporations are seen as naturally good, from whom protection is not needed. Only the government is seen as a potential source of tyranny or oppression.

How long will this be justifiable, with the rapid gain in power by corporations?
They are probably using negative space (e.g., what they did not fill in) to show the picture. Sure, this is often used to show two pictures at once, but I don't think that's the case here.

I think it's mirrored vertically to further reinforce the trope from preschool of cutting out shapes from folded construction paper.
In the general case of offensive speech, we're not usually talking about global geopolitics -- that's a relatively unique feature of this specific case. The premise "there are specific cases where making a judgement call is going to be difficult" is true; that doesn't make the conclusion "therefore, we should never make judgement calls" true.
Gave it a try and it works really good (though my old computer seems to reach it's limits). Thanks again!