skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I not sure that it could be something you are interested in but, I'm kinda biased since I'm now part of the team. I would suggest checking out SatNOGS. It's a stack of open-source technologies build to create a global satellite ground-station network. It's using software defined radios to create a global network of satellite ground-stations.

There's a wiki with lots of information about the project.
https://wiki.satnogs.org

If you'd like you can check out the network web service:
https://network.satnogs.org

Some of the data collected by the network are visualised in a Grafana instance:
https://dashboard.satnogs.org

All data collected from the network are openly available. So we collect and in many cases decode data that are publicly transmitted, like data from scientific and experimental cubesats, weather satellites and radio amateur communications.

The project is run by Libre Space Foundation (https://libre.space), we interested in building open-space technologies and as such we maintain several open-hardware and free software projects on our repositories (https://gitlab.com/librespacefoundation).
I don't disagree; but propaganda is in the eye of the beholder. Eric Weinstein's podcast [0][1] has recently been discussing similar phenomena in left-leaning media and academia, under the label "Distributed Idea-Suppression Complex" (including alleged media blackouts of Bernie + Yang).

At first order of approximation, a lot can be explained by simple incentives, and who pays the bills (ie, advertisers, which at that scale necessarily include megacorporations who are hyper-sensitive to any PR impacts across their hundreds of subsidiary brands).

But there's something bigger than that: a sort of credibility table-stakes, demanding alignment with a particular narrative ecosystem to be let into the party. What's insidious about this sort of self-selecting self-censorship is that it requires little-to-no to centralized orchestration; just swarms of conforming individuals who know where they're bread is buttered. As soon as one is rewarded by punishing a heretic, thus setting an example to others to not stray too far afield, a particular complex can ossify quickly.

While it's false equivalence to claim that MSNBC/etc actively propagandizes to the same extent as Fox (especially aggregated over the last twenty years), the phenomenon seems to occur independently of political preferences or ideology; even rationalist, free-speech-absolutist communities can develop sacred cows, talking points, and taboos.

In essence, I think there's an argument that the media has always had a propagandistic element (as discussed vociferously by Chomsky), allowing some range of open debate, while simultaneously marking some views as a priori off limits. What's changed is that the media landscape has fractionated: left-vs-right in traditional broadcast, and a long tail of communities and media bubbles and cults of personality online. What's more, I'd suggest that within each media sub-landscape, the range of acceptable debate has significantly narrowed; debate is now something that happens between tribes, rather than something that is permissible internally.

What's your reasoning as to the (non-Fox) media "actively trying to cover up Trump crimes"? It seems to me that circa 2017, they were on top of Trump's shenanigans (the demand was there, and it was good for ratings and profits); I still see no shortage of anti-Trump content, but I think everyone's burned out by the horrific normalcy of it all. Do you see something being actively orchestrated, beyond just advertisers/ratings/etc, and if so, why and by whom?

[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/18-slipping-the-disc-s...

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/19-bret-weinstein-the-...
Sure they said that, but they likely did that to cover up the Saudi hack of Bezo's phone
Yes, the software clips most leading "this" and "these" because it's such a common clickbait device. Unfortunately sometimes the result is worse.

I've reworded it to make sense without resorting back to "these".
hacking of bezos' phone by MBS of KSA suggests an effort by the saudis to influence news coverage so that their backwards petrostate is not excoriated as routinely or as comprehensively for its cornucopia of egregiously unacceptable faults. there may also be some sort of wrondoing on behalf of trump in this incident, but i think it's too early to say either way.

on the bright side, this flap is a battle of billionaires. whoever loses, we win. at the current stage of the news cycle, it looks like MBS is down for the count, meaning that we're that much closer to being able to exclude KSA from world affairs until it modernizes. but, we'll have to see where it goes. if the media and the UN don't carry this investigation to its conclusion, there's still a chance the perpetrators could weasel away.

relatedly, this is the second incident in which someone has sought to blackmail bezos and failed horribly. i usually don't appreciate bezos, but the guy's unflappable. i wonder what bezos is doing behind the scenes to get back at the perpetrators, if anything.
Great points—I 100% agree. While at Buildium I actually built our three marketing teams—acquisition marketing, product marketing, and corporate marketing to support many of the different functions you mentioned.
"What they did effectively early on is bring other hugely talented people onto the team before they could afford to pay them their market worth. They did this by paying several of their early employees in sweat equity that they accrued at the same rate as the founders for time spent working on the business. "

But Buildium is quite a few decades in the making, does this attitude exist among the new startups of today? I doubt that.

Thank you for the article Geoff. Fantastic insight. And one that's very well written, I enjoy how much focus you put into the article around culture, especially one of your finishing paragraphs.

"If you have a high-functioning and aligned team that can respectfully disagree with each other yet still make decisions and execute, you can overcome just about any challenge in business. On the flip side you can have every market advantage in the world, but if your organization isn’t healthy it’s only a matter of time until you reach your demise. I believe this to be true."

I'll make sure I read 'The Advantage' at my earliest opportunity. Thanks again!
It's almost as if HN could use a tagging system... :)
I recently left a similar comment on a similar HN thread regarding a mouse study and received a bunch of downvotes. (Complaining about downvotes is lame, but just adding this to show the potential attitude about it here.)

I believe there's a pretty high chance humans in 2120 will look back on today and marvel at all of the facets of life that were filled with backwardness and barbarism, like we do for 1920, and like they did for 1820.
It's a difficult problem for sure. But I don't think we'll ever come up with a truly "clean" personal vehicle like the cars we know today. I think the solution would have to be something like better, cleaner public transit, encouraging people to live in walking/biking distance from their work, encouraging remote work, and reducing car usage overall as much as possible.

Electric cars are better than regular fossil fuel cars, yes. But the article talks about "stopping" climate change, not just making it slightly less bad.
Just based on what I see rustfmt is copied from gofmt which borrowed it from Python. Cargo is just another pypi with certain improvements.

Rust RFC's process is also from there.

Hopefully rust can have something like PEP-8 in Python to inculcate habit in programmers to write beautiful readable code.
Yup. Oh, I've tried all sorts of clever things.

Nobody has ever been much motivated by external forces as they are from internal forces. Oh, humans.

Horse to water... and all that.
do you realize to test vaccines to killer diseases we inject animals with bad diseases all the time?
Thanks for the response - I'm not surprised that the looks are what you listed first, - it's amazing the visceral reaction that the design evokes.
R, Matlab/Octave, Mathematica
> Vehicles are being designed with pedestrian safety in mind

They're kind of not. The US still doesn't require any pedestrian safety ratings on cars sold there.
I love your passion for crushing cheaters.
Interesting. Does it result in a compile error if you try arrays of different sizes? (If it's just a run time error, I don't see how it's different to implementing this with operator overloading in any language that supports it).
> higher bit ciphers required the high encryption pack until 5.5 released in 2000

That thing exactly was export-restricted and was available only in U.S. and Canada: https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/159/Q159709/

But it was true that SSL was introduced before 1999. Thanks for the correction.
> But that doesn't stop Microsoft from not shipping that small wrapper.

They could but that goes back to reply about it existing software still requiring IE.

IE will be around for as long as very critical apps still require it. In some form, it might be around forever.
I made this choice. Also not just for pedestrians but for all future people as emissions are lower.

How is maximizing personal gain on the individual level working out? Not well.
Very valuable. Thanks!
Ansel from PSL here. You're exactly right. The entrepreneurs we work with want the best shot at a winning idea. Just because we decide to kill an idea doesn't mean we don't end up finding something else in the same area to work on together. It also doesn't mean they can't go do that idea by themselves if they disagree. PSL does not hang onto any rights whatsoever after killing an idea.

It's also worth noting that only half the companies we end up spinning out were generated by entrepreneurs. The rest (including XYLO) are generated and validating in-house before we even seek an entrepreneur to partner with.
Are you saying the Daily Stormer ban is worse because it didn't knock them offline, but the Alex Jones ban is bad because it did knock his audience way down?

I can't figure out what your argument is.

And nobody expects antibiotics to eradicate a disease either.

Also Alex Jones was using that platform to strongly harm the lives of a big group of people by aiming constant harassment at them. Does that factor in anywhere? Are you demanding hosting platforms to be complicit in that?
What do you mean? Headlines like "Yabba Dabba Doo it's the iPad 2" scream professionalism.
What is tech about it? Cars and batteries aren’t software you can easily make endless clones of and sell over and over again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mou...
How interesting! Thanks for posting, I had no idea and bought it even though I've been aware of other similar sorts of submarine PR stories.

Do you have a link to the debunking?
Committed support until 2029 for VB6 and other .Net functionality still require it
Being that plastic is also made of natural gas it may not have been directly included in the oil stat.
Electricity is rapidly switching over to renewable sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_photovoltaics

Having an electric car fleet means that transportation will get greener "automatically", as the power grid switches over to wind and solar. Having a fossil fuel car fleet means you're screwed no matter what happens in the electricity sector. Having a smaller fossil fuel car fleet just means that you're screwed a little more slowly.
I think it's really important to put their torture in proper context.

https://animalcharityevaluators.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/...

This statistic from animal charity evaluators, show just how small a percentage lab testing makes up for in the total amount of animals we use and kill.

If your goal is to effectively reduce animal suffering, the only place that makes sense to start is factory farming. The conditions animals endure are much worse than most testing, and the scale is difficult to comprehend.

I don't mean to trivialize the suffering these mice went through, I just think it's important to make clear that we cause the same amount of suffering every time we eat meat, something that brings us much less value than this research.
I mean, I'm a science person I get that. I don't think having a scientific procedure negates the fact that some unlucky ones were essentially tortured.

Idk, maybe I am becoming more uncomfortable in general with animal experiments but the ones I participate in, the animals are anesthetized when something painful happens. Certainly, we are choosing to benefit human life over animal life, and certainly they have a much shorter life span, but I do feel we should be minimizing harm and refusing to cross certain lines.

If someone that wasn't a professional said "look how quickly these mice turn white when you cause them searing pain" you'd have a different opinion of them.
I had a hard time learning about the Harlow research into infant attachment, isolation and depression at UW-Madison back in the day.
And Pytheas describes exactly how the tin got to the Mediterranean, at least in the 4th century BC.
I think this is a don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good scenario along with being a bit more generous with the hyperbole in articles. I think it's fair to read "stopping" climate change as taking substantial steps to begin addressing it.
In fairness, I read their comment as indicting the left-leaning media for sweeping Bernie under the rug, not the right. If anything, Fox kinda likes Bernie, whether it's a grudging respect for his honesty, or that his socialist brand inflames their base, or simply that he ruffles the feathers of the more mainstream Democrats.
Build infrastructure for public transportation and bicycles and such things. Try to eliminate cars.
So Buildium makes money off of normal subscription payments like any SaaS business does by charging a monthly fee to property management companies for access to their software. They also make money by taking a small percentage of rent payments that are processed online via the platform. These are rent payments that tenants pay to their property management company, not Buildium itself. Said another way, the tenant has no obligation to pay Buildium whatsoever—but with rent payment being regular and recurring, Buildium captured predictable revenue by capturing these payment processing fees.
A whole lot of emissions in the US are from transportation. Electric cars can be part of a wider solution.
This is a pretty absurd thing to say. Natural or accidental deaths are different than planned attacks. There is no shortage of murderous, suicidal people. If you made it easier for them, more of them would go for it. The 3 successful attacks on 9/11 contributed something like an extra 20% to the US murder rate. That’s not insignificant.

Also, we do spend an enormous amount of money on safety in the US. Why do you think the absolute cheapest new cars in the US are two to four times as expensive as new cars in countries that don’t have the same kind of safety standards (e.g. Mexico or India)? And because of the tort system, businesses spend untold amounts of money making their facilities and products safer in general.
IE is an OS component; it's not merely a browser.
I think substantial here is debatable.
As part of my 4 year Engineering degree we had to do a couple of these types of courses.

In first year there was a subject focused around class discussions I can remember each week we'd be given an issue we'd go and do research on the issue then we'd discuss it the next week in class. The lecturer would kind of guide us by asking leading questions but it was mostly back and fourth free discussion talking about pros and cons of issue etc. It was a relatively soft subject but the discussions in class were always lively and I found it pretty interesting the diversity of opinions that would come up often people in the classroom would have very different ideas and there would be points raised I hadn't previously considered. I can remember one discussion around implications of GM Food (which was topical at the time) sparked some really heated discussion. I thought the subject was really good at opening us up to deeper ethical considerations.

In Later Years we had a subject focused on Engineering disasters and failures things like Bhopal, Challenger, Kansas City Walkway etc. How can we learn from these events how can we apply those learning to everyday practice.

There was also a fourth year subject which included a guest lecturer from the Law Faculty which covered things like Liability, Professional Responsibility, Codes of Practice. It included discussion on Whistle-blowing and disclosure.

Software world can feel quite a bit different the same requirements around responsibility and liability don't exist which effects the culture somewhat.
I don't even understand what life means without economic growth anymore.. no new companies, no new technologies, no new anything. Nothing to strive towards, no chance to escape the station of life you were born in. Its like growth is THE civilization level goal we've had since forever. We need to move from A to B. What do we even do without a place to go? What will happen to civilization without a goal we can all organize around in elaborate structures called societies and clubs and companies and move to? Maybe if i was younger i would have answers, or that question wouldn't even matter but not anymore.

(OP if you have any thoughts on it i'd love to hear them)
Granted these researchers probably didn’t know what they’d find, but I figure part (in my case, all) of the discomfort comes from the relative inanity of the result.

Torture mice to discover that stress turns hair white and whoa we might be able to prevent stress from turning people’s hair white. The benefit of their suffering is nowhere near developing vaccines for harmful diseases (at this point, anyway).
What I think is kind of interesting is that South Korea arguably had/has the technical know-how to have built it's own domestic browser with SEED and good Hangul/Hanja language support built into it and ended up with a very siloed alternative web. As an example, I'm thinking of the ubiquity of the Hangul Word Processor over Microsoft Word (which apparently has been around for over 30 years!) which gained near ubiquity in its domestic market.

However, I think the present situation is possibly the better one as a siloed, South Korea only web, separate and distinct from the rest of the Web, would end up being a much harder one to eventually migrate to the regular global web ecosystem vs. the current problem of just getting banks to stop using SEED and moving users to modern browsers.
What I think you’re meaning to say is that if news was actually journalism as opposed to clearly dictated by a small number of powerful people, that we could still trust the news despite possible hacks.
I'm not sure about the 4, though it was present at least from the original up through the 3B+.
> ... and it could use its power to sell the browsing data of users of .orgs

By what mechanism is this possible?
You might be surprised just how much legacy software does something like spawn("iexplore.exe").

And then there are all the internal corporate web portals that are still IE-only, and probably will remain so for as long as IE is supported in any shape or form.
In a clip for BBC Radio, Cleese also couldn't refrain himself from reaching for old stereotypes about "hot tempered" Welsh people, god forbid he should pass on a chance to spread his (not-so-)casual racism far and wide once more.

It's such a shame how badly that man has aged.
Is there any truth in truth serums? (2015)
Something I've noticed that came to mind as I happen to be vacationing in Playa Del Carmen (Mexico) while reading this. I'm from Canada; visiting here, and walking through the town, I obviously notice many buildings, vehicles, roads, etc. are in much more of a state of disrepair than I'm used to at home. This includes downtown areas, so it's not a sprawl issue, but (I assume) just that there isn't the same amount of capital invested into maintaining infrastructure, updating vehicles, etc. that we see at home. (On average; obviously there are plenty of exceptions.) Now, this isn't surprising since GDP per capita in Mexico is much lower than in Canada or the United States. However, in most visits I've made to the US, I've noticed the same thing to a lesser extent. Almost anywhere roads are in worse condition that what I'm used to. Outside of large cities, infrastructure in general seems more run-down than in similar places in Canada. But this is all just in my limited personal experience.

So first of all, I'm curious whether this is actually the case, or just my own biased personal experience. Have other cross-border travelers noticed this? And if it is a real thing, then I'm curious what the reasons are, given that the US has somewhat higher GDP per capita than Canada.

Some possibilities I've considered are 1) wealth in the US is more concentrated in large cities than in Canada. I'm sure this is the case in both countries, but perhaps the effect is greater in the US? 2) The spending priorities in the two countries are different. For instance, US spending on healthcare and on military are both higher per capita than Canadian. Perhaps Canada just spends more (publicly and/or privately) on infrastructure and less on other things? If so, is this the result of intentional priorities to some extent? Or is it just an artifact of history or of governmental structures?

I'm not trying to argue that one approach is better than another, or even that my observations are generalize-able. Just curious if others have noticed the same and have thoughts.
Is 1900-AD English "a dead language" because nobody who spoke it natively is still alive? What about 1800, 1700, or 1000? What year did English die and if it did indeed die, what are we speaking now?

The reasons for considering English circa 1000 and English circa 2020 to be "different stages of the same language" but Latin and French to be "different languages" are an arbitrary cultural distinction not rooted in science. The English of Beowulf is just as different from the modern variety as French is from Latin. And at every point from the introduction of Latin into France thousands of years ago until the present day, everybody could communicate perfectly easily with their own grandparents, and thought they were speaking the same language.
Indeed. Have a chapter on the geopolitical implications on landownership. https://www.unitism.com/land/en/14-the-price-of-peace
PwC was easy enough to search for to answer my own question. But I have to ask if it is really well known itself for an article not to even spell it out, much less explain what the business is and its relevance to the situation?
systemd and its ecosystem isn't built inside of Emacs.
Fear is not only the mind-killer, it's also the most powerful upselling strategy in the world. Particularly to young parents who tend to be a bit insecure about how much caring is enough. It's not just fear that something bad might happen to their child, it's also fear of being only the second-most responsible set of parents in the room.