skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny enough, seems like the NASA page on this matter does not show all the pictures. This imgur album seem to have them though.

Very fun and interesting thought experiment, trying to envision what you'd get out of each picture if coming from a blank-ish slate.

Other nice links:

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/images-voyager-took/

the greetings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVe2aZyygM
Trace-Based Testing in Erlang
Just wanted to point out that it's just not far-away places that have backwards politicians.
Why wouldn't they? It's a very good programming language that's underrepresented in the market. I don't get why people get so upset over language evangelists. Is it that you already know the languages they advertise are good, or that you don't want to know?
It's a politico-technological arms race. Governments make laws. People make technology that nullifies those laws. The government reacts and makes laws that circumvent the technology. People make even more technology to deal with the new laws. This can end in one of two ways:

1. Subversive technology becomes so ubiquitous and easy to use it's impossible to fight it. The government stops trying.

2. The government's control increases to the point of tyranny and people are no longer free.

I want the government to give up. Anything else will mean the destruction of the free internet and free computing we all enjoy today. I don't want a future where encryption is military use only because of laws that make it impossible to run code not signed by the government.

> But I'd at least like to see builders grappling with that balance.

There is no balance to be had. The internet contains the full spectrum of humanity. The very best and the very worst of humanity are both be found on the internet. The governments were oblivious for a while but now they want to narrow down the spectrum. As they impose laws and exercise control, the internet becomes safer but it also becomes less international and more regional. The flow of information is no longer free and unrestricted. The spectrum is narrowed down from both sides.

Sadly it will only get worse from here. I am happy to have enjoyed the internet while it was in its infancy, and I am sad that future generations will probably never experience it.

> Especially given recent prominent reporting around this:

Every article about encryption regulation is like this. Pedophiles and terrorists. Children in particular are the perfect political weapon. The exploitation of children provokes reactions in people that are so visceral they are ready to accept any law that would supposedly make it stop. Anything can be justified with these arguments and anyone who disagrees is labeled a pedophile apologist and instantly shunned.
Reserve for them parking lots which don't block bike lanes. Enforce them not parking on bike lanes. When parked there, they are a safety security threat.
Only if you assume OSX or FreeBSD don’t exist.
Hong Kong is exporting its protest techniques around the world
Isn't "But think of the dissidents in China" the libertarian version of "Think of the children"?

In any case, OP was visibly grappling with a tradeoff. The question is if there are compromises, i. e. methods to make such projects more useful for the good dissident, and less so for criminals.

One idea would be to restrict the types of files: video would seem to be more useful for illegal pornography than anti-government organisation. Please note: more useful. I'm not saying video is completely useless for good causes.

You could even make features dependent on the language used, or do some rudimentary geolocation. Or correlate directly with freedom: "if Wikipedia is not blocked, your upload speeds are severly limited".

None of these are perfect, and most are easily circumvented by people with a working compiler. But But they might help mitigate the possible misuses. Denying even the possibility is just lazy.
Nothing caricatural here. As Donald Trump would say in numerous of his shameless Twitter rant, "Fake News".

If the (far) right's discourse were aligned to reality and facts, liberal leaning people would have no reason to say reality has a liberal bias.

Beside any political consideration, media, right and left leaning had always bias in the way they present information. Well ahead of social media existence. The difference now is Social Media now gave voice to an army of idiots and the most extreme views, like flat earthers, E.T, far right discourses, once restricted to a few fringe publishing for public exposure, has now find his way to mainstream discourse.
Yeah, I apparently misremembered the number (I guess I'm lazy to go for 2-3 usually, but I think it's the 20% effort that gets you 80% there). And I never had a mess cause I do it over the sink.
So what's the alternative? "The rules aren't perfect, so let's get rid of all of them" is not improving things over "the rules intent is good, but humans implementing them will be biased". The solution would be a way to reduce bias.

Ironically, one true solution to the problem of bias is diversity. The thing the groups who most rail against banning of misgendering or racist language despise. Get a a "good conservative" into the group which enforces the rules, as an ombudsman or a watchdog whatever, the same way we'd do for polticically other, and then it can play out.

Disclosure: I am an european left of center, so from american perspective I'm basically communist. I use conservatives as an example because the seem to be the largest group complaining about things like enforcing harassment policies. To communicate my view on this debate with an example, insisting on misgendering people when that causes them pain is worse than a mere insult, it's equivalent to walking up to veteran with PTSD, pulling out a toy gun to their face and going "BANG". That shit would not offline, and it should not fly as a performative act online to normalize it either.
Great write up! Just noticed my theme popping up in the examples
Many of the comments here insist on housing prices. I'm a Zurich local for the 7th year and would like to put this into perspective.

Sharing a flat here is something many younger single people do, but even for the older generation is not a taboo (my friend shared a flat with a single mother and her kid for a couple years). I myself share an enormous modern penthouse-like apartment on a top of a building, at a good and quiet location in Zurich. I wanted to have flatmates (winters are dark and boring here :-) ) and one of the side effects is the cost saving. I never lived in bigger luxury, yet I pay 10% of my monthly income for the rent.

Public transportation is affordable, fast, clean, and again, in contrast to the US, not looked down on. A manager in the bank sits next to the paintshop worker on the bus and this is completely fine. I have lived outskirts too, yet never had more than 30min commute.

Life might seem inconvenient here (bikes preferred over cars, young people share flats instead of their own kingdom, 2-3x more $$$ for a restaurant dinner, etc), however, all these facts also contribute to better physiological and mental health.

It's not for everyone thou, YMMV, etc.

On the SWEng side, it's a whole different question. Less competitive environment, less cool bubble projects, no Juicero-like promises to get superrich superfast. (Although this might also one of the factors for a better mental health ;-) )
Heh, I mentioned my dyson problems to a repair place and they said "die-soon" and laughed. They do have a somewhat innovative design, but are made almost entirely of plastic and just don't last very long.

Sure it's kind of cool to skip having to have replace vacuum bags, but it's much more of a pain to have to replace the entire unit because of a relatively minor problem.

So I think it's mostly just good marketing and attractive products and consumers who don't look at the reliability/expected lifetime before purchase.
Thank you, I guess I misremembered. But 2-3 times works for me.
I guess IBM must have offered that since a long time ago. I always find that whatever is new under the sun, IBM did it a long time ago. And their name for it is always something else than what it's called nowadays.
Yes, yes, read a book a day, Lamborghini in the Hollywood hills, I'm pretty sure we've been over this already. Jokes aside, this article assumes that you can read a book in a little over 2 hours, and that you can find 200 books per year that you'd want to read (and that this takes no time by itself). Both of those are quite wrong in my experience.
These feel ill formed NVC. If you lead with feeling the entire exchange becomes confrontational. First state unambiguous facts.
Not signalling turns is something that I really don't understand. It requires minimal effort, doesn't slow you down in any way, and significantly increases safety. It's something that should be enforced much more.
San Mateo and Redwood City are both expensive, but not as bad as SF. One article reported median rents were about 2.4k, which makes sense. There a few places advertising lower rents, but not many, and at that price you are giving stuff up. SF is worse.

Another issue is the commute. Traffic is really bad, so finding a cheaper place farther away from work will cost you in time and energy, especially if you have to cross a bridge.

It's so bad that some districts, including San Mateo, are building their own housing for teachers. https://edsource.org/2019/in-need-of-teacher-housing-more-ca...

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/8/20/20814179/housing-crisis-teac...
> Twitters rules are heavily ideologically driven, for instance misgendering is against their rules.

The idea that if twitter had a rule against misgendering means Twitter's rules are heavily ideological is... pretty ideological itself.

For one thing, I don't seem to see that rule here:

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-rules

[EDIT - respondent provided text that appears under a subheading: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hateful-condu... ]

For another, even if I missed it or it's implicit in another rule, while I suppose there's an argument that identifiers have political implications... there's plenty of social space for them to be about being polite in the same way that usually, you should use the names people give you for themselves.

Maybe most of all, though, how many of the other rules would you characterize as heavily ideologically driven? Perhaps the one about not threatening violence against an individual or class? Promoting terrorism? Child sexual exploitation? Suicide? Doxing?

Personally, I can think of a pretty wide latitude of discourse ranging over a variety of ideologies that's allowed me even if I'm forbidding those forms of engagement AND have to be careful to use someone's preferred pronouns.
Can anyone shed some light on whether using a service like this may be a legal concern? I recently read that at least in the EU dynamic/personalized pricing can be illegal if it discriminates groups based on certain criteria.
I've been using the Slimblade for years. I even contributed a small change to Xorg evdev input driver (the Emulate3Button option) to work around the weird internal numbering of the buttons on the device.

On my couch / entertainment computer I use a Logitech M570, but for work nothing beats the Slimblade.
privacy.resistFingerprinting = true

breaks whatsapp web login page, interesting
Kubernetes Networking: Behind the Scenes
When I lived in Germany, I would sometimes notice items placed up on fences, stone walls, the side of a fountain, etc. Things like keys, or a small child's toy, or a hat, for example.

I asked a couple different friends about this, and they said that often when people see something that looks like it was lost, they will place it up somewhere more conspicuous right be where they found it, so that hopefully whomever lost it can more easily find it.

I always thought that was a little bit of a nice touch of humanity, even if it doesn't take a lot of extra effort to do.
The thing with doors for me is that I feel “trapped” when I have a door with no place for my hands besides a panel that lies flat (does not extend outward) from the door. The first time I saw one I was very confused: it seemed to me that I was against a wall that was painted as a door, but had no handles. It was surprising to me that specific example it was brought up as an example of good user interface design in my university UI class.

Your account of the train incident is heart-breaking, but further solidifies my desire to have mandatory best practices that are evidence-based and have sufficient consensus for user interfaces that have harmful failure modes. On top of these best practices, there also needs to be a ramp plan from the any status quo interface that is nonconformant to the final version through as many intermediate designs as necessary to deal with ingrained user behaviour and ingrained user expectations.
>The point is to prevent them feeling victimized and recruiting other people by stating they are victimized and censored. Do not underestimate the underdog effect.

So you're saying the point is to not hurt neo-nazi's feelings, because if you're nice to them, they wouldn't recruit so many people to their cause?

Sounds like you're making the old Tone Argument to me.

https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/Tone_argument

Boo fucking hoo. Fuck their feelings. They'll recruit as many people as they can whether you treat them nicely or not. But booting them from twitter and other platforms drastically reduces the number of people they can recruit, and the amount of money they can raise.

Are your own feelings hurt that Milo Yiannopoulos had to sell his own web site because he's so starved for cash he "couldn't put food on the table" after Twitter de-platformed him? Hurray for Twitter doing that, at least!

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/10/milo-yiannopoulos-appare...

>Milo Yiannopoulos apparently sold his website because he’s starved for cash

>He was just saying that he couldn't "put food on the table." Now he has sold his website. Is he done?

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/09/poor-milo-yiannopoulos-c...

>Poor Milo Yiannopoulos ‘can’t put food on the table’ despite selling out LGBTQ people

>“I’m clinging on for dear life," says the gay gadfly who made his career rubbing shoulders with neo-Nazis. They should have taught him the meaning of "schadenfreude."

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/08/milo-yiannopolis-epic-me...

>Milo Yiannopoulos had an epic meltdown on Facebook & the tears are delicious

>Sure, he spends $7500 on a night out, but he's broke and you need to send him more money.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59n99q/milo-yiannopoulos-...

>Milo Yiannopoulos Says He's Broke

>“I can’t put food on the table this way.”

https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/yiannopoulos-complains-teleg...

>Milo Yiannopoulos is dissatisfied with the living he makes from Telegram

>20K followers just isn’t cutting it.

>Former Breitbart writer Milo Yiannopoulos is among the perennially banned members of the far-right and conspiracy theory set who have found a new home on Telegram.

>In spite of having 19,100 followers, one of the largest among his shunned cohorts who migrated to the messaging app, Yiannopoulos is not satisfied with his experience. Specifically, he’s mad that he a) doesn’t have more members and subscribers and b) the small size of his following is cutting into his bottom line.

>In a lengthy thread unearthed by Twitter user @witchofpeace, the self-styled “pop star of hate” complains profusely about his paltry 470 subscribers and “microscopic followings like 20K,” which he says “are not going to sustain people like me.”

https://twitter.com/witchofpeace/status/1170945244185210881

>Milo reveals just how much the far right are struggling after being deplatformed from the main social media sites.
For reference: http://bash.org/?104383
Ok, well, depends what you call diversity.

In the US, it generally means racial diversity. Sure Switzerland has a lot of European people from various countries. But it is nonetheless a very white country...

I'm just saying that writing that Switzerland is more diverse than Silicon Valley is ridiculous.
EA changed their lootbox strategy in multiple games and thus lost millions over that. The whole industry took a step back, regulations were announced or at least threatened in several countries. The outrage against EA had a huge effect. It didn't destroy EA, but that also wasn't the goal nor feasible.

Semi-political outrage can not destroy a gaming company (not until politicians carry on). Each year there are new 10-year old kids going into stores/the first time onto Steam and buy something flashy they want to play. And in countries like Germany a third of the population plays games. Those buyers are not unified politically nor culturally.

But: If the opinion that a company does harm to gamers or people in general becomes prevalent, that's a huge danger for the company in the long run. It dampens its success, how their marketing is received, what they can do and what they can say. They lose access to the core group. Stuff like this is important enough.
This may just be something that I’m sensitive to, but the “you always” part of the first statement immediately puts me in a hostile posture. I start thinking of counterarguments to the fact that was asserted (“I picked up my socks just yesterday!”), and the generality of “always” makes it difficult to come to a tangible resolution—if the collection of past transgressions is the real problem, there isn’t a way to fix them.

I think a lot of the power of the second statement comes from the fact that it primarily addresses _this_ instance of the problem, which takes away any incentive to argue with the fact asserted (the socks plainly are on the floor) and makes the path to a resolution much more straightforward: I’m sorry for leaving these socks on the floor; I’ll pick them up, and yes, I’d be happy to put them in the machine in the future.
The product development process to go from idea to several happy users
How does it sound to you when somebody sings/whistles a song in the "wrong" (a different) key?

Similarly, how does it sound to you when people sing in a slightly detuned pitch grid (e.g. all notes a quarter semitone flat)?

Is one or the other more irritating? Are they irritating at all?

Edit: I suppose we do a combination of both, most of the time.
This is the repo for the FreeCodeCamp project if you're interested: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/chapter
Just to mention: You have to deal with migration of stuff only once. I personally have always used a separate device for work, and one for private things. Except for one time, that's the reason behind why I do now :D (even right now as a freelancer I have a laptop dedicated for work only, while right next to it, there's the PC I use for private purposes)
Whenever I have a company laptop I try to have it as clean as it is of my personal stuff, so I usually would use a tablet and/or my phone for private stuff as long as there's not too much typing involved.
Would be great if the video was available.
> (or just 1 depending on whether you count 1 as an order of magnitude or not

Of course you don't count 1: otherwise 3 would be 1 order of magnitude greater than 3, which is obviously wrong.
Definitely famous. He became an instant hero. The plane's role was less positive, but at least it didn't sink.

The performance of the ferry crews who did the rescue should never be neglected. Union-mandated emergency training was carried out perfectly.
Could you also add Mumbai?
This leaves room for a trackball that requires the pointer finger to move the pointer. This way of pointing feels much more precise, and leaves the strong thumb to thumb the main button.

And for the question on scrolling: let me press an additional button that enables scrolling with the ball, both horizontally and vertically.

The Logitech TrackMan Marble would, in my opinion, be a wonderful example for such a trackball. (Here, the described scrolling behavior can be configured with the Logitech driver on Windows, with Karabiner on macOS, and by mapping a scroll modifier button in xorg.conf setting in X, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Logitech_Marble_Mouse#S... )
Every language has their esoteric quirks.

Tell me that it isn't weird to write this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

Tell me it isn't strange that array access is the same as pointer deref (aka a[index] is same as index[a])
Make Azeroth Great Again [0]? You could by them at https://shop.esfand.tv/ before, but it’s currently under construction (the website’s <title></title> still has it in the name). I posted this in the original post of the story too [1].

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=494dkjXL3p4

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21190549
I've had that in my wishlist for a couple years now but haven't bought it since my MTE hasn't broken again since my last rebuild. The key difference between all other trackballs on the market is that they are all thumb controlled on the ball. The Elecom is an index finger ball like the MTE, and if you read the reviews has a lot of MTE converts. I've probably bought every trackball style and keep going back. Kensington Expert Mouse was a good contender years ago but their quality dropped sharply once they got semi-popular in the late 2000's. Logitech trackballs are pretty much all garbage.

Also on my to-try list is a rollermouse.
https://www.contourdesign.com/product/rollermouse-red/
Among people familiar with the book, "Has the propaganda model been invalidated by the social media media giants?" is a regular question. Chomsky's initial reply is most of what needs to be said. Information production is a vital part of the media industry and the landscape of information producers by volume is more or less the same as it was back then — dominated by state institutions and corporations. It was so interesting to read that section in Manufacturing Consent; the hard numbers really helped get a proper sense of the scale imbalances in information production.

The marking out of the symbiotic relationship between reliable information producers and journalists is also vital to understanding the media system. A reliable, centralised stream of new information content is the life blood of journalism organisations, with a strong emphasis on _reliable_ and _centralised_. This particular need that journalists have sees them often becoming dependent on state institutions and corporations at the expense of minority groups and labor. An example being the journalists 'on the beat' that used to hang out around the local courthouse because that's where the 'feeding trough' is. Or the reports so nicely formatted and condensed produced by the state departments such that journos merely have to copy-paste the information straight into their papers. Easy-peasy.

Fascinating book.