skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it wrong if I'm kicked out a private club for saying something that offended the other members? Is the club's management obligated to allow me to continue expressing myself on their property, to their members?

Social media platforms and telcos operate at different layers of the stack. Even if something's acceptable at one layer, doesn't mean it's OK at another, because the consequences are different.

If an ISP allows someone to express something offensive (i.e. legal, but strongly disagreeable to the majority) on their network, it doesn't affect their other customers directly - they won't know or care which ISP this person was using. If a social media platform allows posting something that most other users would find offensive, those other users will leave. And yet people are arguing for deregulating the first (anti-net-neutrality) and regulating the second. It seems backward to me.

What you call "censoring" someone else might call "curation and removal of BS". The free market can decide whether it's too much or too little.
One problem with this article (and many others) is it confounds the benefits of taking leave with _paid leave_.
I don't think there is a strong challenge against women taking a break after giving birth, but there is a moral/values argument about who pays for it.

Potential sources of funding include:

1. Government (on various levels)
2. Employer
3. Savings
4. Debt (maternity loans?)
5. Partner/Father, other family

We'd have to control for and examine interventions in the sources of funding to determine if governmental paid leave for all is a good policy.

Sadly the article also focuses, myopically, on just maternity leave instead of Parental leave. afaik it's proven that children do better with 2 parents present. (lets ignore gender arguments for a moment and see the obvious-- access to twice the parental figures will be more robust and have more resources)
You know, other than helping run the internet. They make great servers, so your viewpoint is a little confusing to me
>> The First Amendment only works because non-governmental actors in society are allowed to decide what to publish, what to pass on, and what to throw away according to their own standards. It's not some blanket "everyone allow all" rule.

> 2) You agree with me. Again, my point is not that they shouldn't do that, but that the filter they use to do so is so highly subjective and opaque that it's no longer useful.

No, I don't. I think it's fine to have opaque, highly subjective standards; and such standards are can be very useful. My standards about what I publish, what I pass on, and what I throw away are like that. The costs of transparency can be extremely high, and subjectivity just can't be avoided. In some cases, my judgement may differ from theirs, and I may even say so, but ultimately subjective judgement can't be avoided.
Do they still recycle the address if you stop paying?
> As a result, those pieces of paper would literally collapse into an actual black hole long before they could properly emulate the black hole they were modeling.

That is wrong. Any method of emulating the black hole within a volume less-than or equal to the Schwarzchild radius of the black hole would collapse, but you could do the calculation over a larger volume and avoid that. The most massive stars are far more massive than the least massive black holes.

The smallest black hole known that I could find from a quick search is XTE J1650-500, at about 3.8 solar masses with a "15 mile"[1] diameter. There are a lot of stars more massive than that.[2]

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/smal...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_massive_stars
Life is worth living if you live in USA that's a gift in itself.It is also worth it for your family if you have one.
Microsoft: We were wrong about open source, but luckily you can change
I understand that sleep is complicated, and also that there's a wide variance in how people respond to sleep (and lack of same).

I wasn't trying to shit on the OP, just that this made it to the front page of HN and has no takeaway from it. All I learned is some 22 year old guy was able to function fine on minimal sleep.

Did I miss something else? I'm genuinely curious because this is actually a subject of great interest to me.
My friends and I have been playing board games (Coup, 7 Wonders, Stone Age) on boardgamearena.com. It has a nice interface, and looks like there's a lot of other board games too. But to play these games, one person in the group needs to have a premium account.
If you go on NVIDIA's website you can find the specifications of the card where it states the maximum resolution and refresh rate is as follows:

7680x4320@120Hz [1]

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/gtx-1650...
An open forum is not the same as letters to the editor.

It's more analogous to people talking in a bar.
And to conduct a virtuous life....
We need more babies today so that there will be workers to pay taxes when we're of age to draw social security benefits. Millennials are having a huge baby bust right now. You will benefit from that, eventually.
I really just don't understand this sentiment.

Your taxes pay for a lot of things that you don't necessarily benefit from directly at a precise point in time, but which you or your family will quite possibly will at some point in your life, and unquestionably benefit the society you live in - roads, bridges, libraries, schools, medical care...

Even if you don't want to have kids, you wouldn't even be here if your parent didn't!
Centuries ago, people got by with horses. Does that mean that cars aren't essential?

Ridesharing services allow for an unprecedented level of mobility for those who don't already own cars.
Commander Keen is also Doom Guy's father, at least according to Tom Hall (co-founder of id software)

https://twitter.com/ThatTomHall/status/958352500431572992
People who authored pages about him get banned, a couple got life bans. This is almost certainly censorship, not some extensive source verification. There also seems to be a media blackout on the topic.
Seems a little dismissive of BSD systems given how widely deployed the are in comparison to plan9 or zx spectrums. As far as I understand Netflix uses freebsd fairly extensively, and there are powerful tools like pfSense built on BSDs too, which are also used fairly extensively as far as i know.

I would describe that as having practical use.
It's certainly possible, but as a regular use, it's a giant pain in the ass.
CNBC reporter shows how easy it is for stolen journalism to get ad $
4K screens on laptops don't make sense to me. They are too small to get maximum value out of. 1440p is more than enough.
It's hard to find a "new thing" to learn that you can reliably compare to the previous "new things".
The problem is that there is not a single, universal correct answer. Answering this question requires that we uncover built-in assumptions, and make them explicit.
I mean, isn't that exactly the point the person above is making?
Please don't. It's not ok to bring someone's personal details as ammunition into an argument (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), nor to make accusations of astroturfing based on someone arguing a view you dislike (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). If you feel like someone's abusing HN, please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look into it.
Kind of tangential, but wouldn’t it be cool to have a rack or two of Internet Archive shards in local library basements?
Same, the people obsessed with horrific crime dramas confuses the hell out of me.
That stuff just lives in my head for way too long.
Not OP, but a lot of American companies do layoffs on a Friday in an attempt to have fewer headlines on a weekend (news outlets aren’t fully staffed then, people are distracted, etc.)

https://www.kornferry.com/insights/articles/bad-news-deliver...
Bay Area cities face grim financial outlook amid budget slashing
If you can use public transportation, then relying on it with supplementary transportation from Uber is cheaper in most cities.
Simple add on - i can no longer uninstall any google apps from my droid phone. Best i can do is disable.

On this topic. WSJ states DoJ is readying antitrust vs google ij near future. May turn out to be quite an accomplishment if done
The T495 / X395 series is based on Zen+ (Ryzen 3000 mobile) chips and not Zen 2 (Ryzen 4000 mobile) - I know the naming is confusing given that the 3000 series desktop chips are Zen 2. However, Lenovo has announced ThinkPads based on Zen 2, such as models in the rebranded T14 lineup, but they have not been released yet.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15772/new-lenovo-thinkpad-ran...
I'm not sure that an explosion of developers would lead to higher quality apps.
Linux phones are nice since they provide things like mainline kernel support which is important for the long term, but many cheap Android devices can be modded to run custom firmware. (The PostmarketOS is working on providing "baseline" Linux installs for those devices.)
Show HN: A simple transactional email service built on SES
The world doesn't need another transactional email service, but I built one anyways!

The main feature I had in mind when developing it was making debugging super easy. There's a really nice UI for searching through emails you've sent and checking their delivery status.

All email is delivered through Amazon SES.

Although building this probably wasn't the most productive use of my time, I definitely learned a lot in the process!
Eh, what intermediaries between farms and grocery stores are "closed by law"?
Eh, I mined on some GPUs for ~a year. They're all still running today in various family members' PCs. Admittedly I was mining Ethereum where the main goal was to undervolt and underclock as much as possible while maximizing the memory clock.
Because we are testing more. The testing positive rate is less than half of what it was a month ago.

I said this elsewhere but this is something health officials have specifically warned against. Yes case counts are going up, but that is because testing is increasing. The metric that matters is the testing positive rate.
I loved coding CoffeeScript on my own a few years ago. Today the thought of having to review PRs written in CoffeeScript by my junior developers is terrifying.
Also the audible version is fantastic
When I go many days in a row without enough sleep, I find that my cognitive abilities (i.e. what I am capable of doing) does not seem to significantly decline--as judged by things I build and people I interact with.

But, my endurance of focus (the amount of time for which I can perform at a high level) does suffer.

The weird thing is that it doesn't feel like I can't keep going... it's just that I sort of somehow don't keep going. I find my mind wandering more easily, checking in on social media more, and then time passing more quickly when I do. I'm more likely to look up from Twitter or HN and be surprised at the time.

In short I don't seem to be any dumber while doing something, but number of things I get done in a typical time periods declines.

As I have come to understand this impact, it has given me greater empathy for addicts. My brain doesn't feel like a tired muscle, or like I'm doing anything wrong in the moment. It's only later, when I look back, that I realize I was making bad decisions and losing time. It has just reinforced how hard it is to use decision-making to recover from a situation where the brain has already been compromised by bad decisions.
What's an EdDSA?
They consider offense to be harm because they seem to want to justify violence against their political rivals.
Another Set of Coronavirus Vaccine Candidates
I worked for small and big. Everyone is expendable. Running lean or efficiency is not something those companies optimize for. That's why they have so many employees. They optimize for growth. Until something bad happens.
> Google's "We're a private company" get-out-jail-free card cannot continue to apply.

It can, should, must and most importantly, will.

What's really not acceptable is their monopoloy position on information, not that they, as a private company, have a right to decide what to publish.
Isn't this just Elon Musk getting into one of his superfluous fights, only this time California being the somewhat-random opponent? Musk has been completely unhinged the last few weeks, and it doesn't seem to be wise making such large decisions in anger, especially considering the reason for his anger is, even if justified, unlikely to reoccur.

I'm quite the Musk fanboy, but he's always had this very strange anger issue... It's not even getting in fights that I find troubling. But for the genius that he is, these squabbles just seem...pedestrian? Calling people pedophiles or going five rounds with SEC for no reason at all?

For comparison, I hate Peter Thiel with a passion. But finding some plaintiff and funding the lawsuit that bankrupts the news organisation that wronged you, for something entirely different? That's how you should win stupid fights when your day job is rockets, fire-throwers, and revolutionary sports cars.

If his recent "red pill" comments is a sign of what's to come, he might be stretching his luck. Going full alt-right MAGA is going to cut his customer base in half, at least in the US and Europe.
I think scooters are very area dependent. Both because of weather, and the supporting infrastructure.
And people should suffer and not feel safe, for others to learn that different acting or looking people are also just human beings?

Society has failed minorities and not minorities society.
Scooters are heaven sent.
After finding that the part of the book which actually got fact-checked is full of falsehoods and contains outright falsifications, your conclusion is "well, the rest of it must be fine"?
Note: People questioning the stats

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272595/global-shipments-...

Note that this data is missing phones.

2010: 157mm Desktops, 201mm Laptops sold
2019 forecast; 88.4 + 166mm

Or, perhaps better, is in terms of internet use
https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/mobile-desktop-internet...

Mobile went from 16.2% to 53% of traffic since 2013; nearly 4 fold. Which means since 2013, non mobile usage went from 84% to 47%; or nearly 50%
This is why I hate DICOM. DICOM itself is fine, it's just that every device manufacturer mucks it up. I remember once working with a device that claimed to meet a certain supplement. Got some sample data from a real world device, implemented the standard in our system, and started playing with it, but every image I got back was just a garbled mess. After tons of attempts, I eventually got in contact with a developer at the manufacturer who told me they encrypt the image data so that it can only be used by their supporting software...
2800% is a much bigger number than 83%. But if you do the math using your numbers, you see that GE substantially underperformed the S&P since 1981:

GE = (1+2800%)*(1-83%) = 4.93 = 393% appreciation since 1981.

S&P = S&P has appreciated 2000% since 1981.

GE << S&P
Fitness and health is more about what you put inside than how you burn it nowadays. If you have low bodyfat % and is in the normal BMI range, you'll be healthy and fit with just regular exercise (walking/jogging a feel hours a week).
Literally nowhere that is a good place to work is even listed in these rankings. It's always massive corporations that get the award for some weird PR reason.
This seems like a promising way of detecting bias. However, I would be surprised if this type of analysis was permitted to continue without objections from police organisations.
Was his assessment basically just playing video games? I've noticed that's an activity I can do proficiently for an extended duration on very little sleep (along with things like "bulk" coding) but there are others I'm awful at unless I'm well rested (eg. complex planning, creative efforts like songwriting) and I've found my communication skills start to become impaired when I'm really sleep deprived.

I'd be curious to see how he performs on a broader spectrum of cognitive and even physical assessments.
This already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_signal#Radio_time_sources

Edit: a page more specific to this use case is probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock
> An open forum is not the same as letters to the editor.

I disagree.

"I rented this hall [for this open forum], and now I’m going to turn off the lights."
... so you basically used Doordash's algorithms to make Softbank donate $15k to your local homeless shelter?

That's fucking awesome. Way to go, man.
Show HN: DevPlan – Professional development for software engineers
The linked page on Android.com does not contain the quoted text about exec(), or the linked section header. Was it removed?

Edit: seems to have moved here: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/behavior-cha...
In my experience, reading reliable secondary sources is a bit easier than primary sources. E.g. for philosophy, I read Stanford's Plato encyclopedia of philosophy. For math, I read nlab or Wikipedia. Unfortunately, both of these will require you to be familiar with basic terminology and concepts of the field and that's where most people stop learning at. E.g. I'm a complete layman in physics and want to learn more but the jargon beyond basic mechanics (i.e. velocity, position, acceleration etc) might as well be Greek to me.
I do not really expect just one, especially I do not expect just one for everybody. I think it depend what you are interested to read about.
Comby: A Tool for Changing Code
No. Unrealistic schedules don't help getting anything done.

I hope they have real plans for the real work, while the CEO throws out PR bombs.
>progressive web apps for Vim

Well it knows how to get HN users attention all right.
The book is on my must-read list has been a while. That's a shame I haven't got time to read yet.
Why in gods name do they have that many people? They are a cab company that doesn't employ drivers. Talk about a dumpster fire of VC money
Chinese labor? That's the machine that built their most recent machine that builds the machine.

Over-indexing on fancy production automation is part of what made the Model 3 launch so painful for them, as admitted by Elon himself. They probably could have had a much happier path spending less capital on a slower, more traditional production ramp-up.
Please don’t post leading questions like this. It’s clear you don’t want the lockdown and subscribe to objectivism. Blanket philosophies always have edge cases and if you can’t accept that there’s no room for debate.
Does the QUIC handshake require compression to be fast?
I normally have always slept for around 4-5 hours a night since I can remember. Only noticeable health consequence I've noticed is pre-hypertension, but that could be a mix of anxiety and/or hereditary.
I can't find a source, but the main one I remember is that all profits made in China had to stay in China.

Edit: this is something I read on a comment here and seem totally unsubstantiated.
However Bloomberg reports some of the conditions here.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-07-30/tesla...

It seems they have a pretty big sword hanging over there head, but I don't know how it compares to the usual conditions.
Yeah, apparently many still haven't got the message that Linux on Android is only implementation detail and the NDK's main purpose is for writing Java and Kotlin native methods.

The way forward is to create Termux like apps in Java/Kotlin.

POSIX is anyway not part of official stable APIs.
I have seen Europeans spit on people in my country and treat them badly. I as an American have seen it and have become wary of trusting Europeans. I saw it with my own eyes so therefore all Europeans are bad. I might be wrong, but let's be honest I don't actually think I am, my anecdotes are better than your data.

That's you, that's how you think.
An educational and insightful book, but it had me losing sleep because I got so anxious on needing more sleep. Talk about irony!
There's the option that there is no way at all of doing it better given the constraints. I'm not saying that's the case, but I'm not seeing evidence to the contrary either.
> they MUST NOT be prohibited, because it would infringe on the rights of the creators.

However in reality the company acts conservitively and bans content that violates in Thailand for the US. "it's their platform". That's the same case as in the US. (See the article earlier talking about the CCP protest comments on youtube.)
This tiering is surprising to me. Which metric are you using? By population, NY, LA, and Chicago are the top three cities in the country.
Who told you

a) my company is an engineering company

b) I have no evidence

c) my post is directed against women

?
<100 deaths & <3k cases total in a county with 1.66 million people is noise compared to the usual suspects.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/states/california/califor...
This is true. I sometimes forget that people from all over the world are on HN. Good point.
Allowing for conflict does not obviate the need for safe spaces.
Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Thanks for the reply. If subthreads like this happen at all (let alone, as you put it, are so disastrous), then it might be a good idea to revisit the moderation mechanisms, don't you think so? Ideally, with a public discussion.

What I'd personally be happy to see being discussed:

- abandoning downvoting of comments completely

- introducing a compensation mechanism for flagging of comments (debatable)

- displaying all flagged submissions in a separate page with a link in the header (like "new", "ask", etc.)
To limit my spending I have a personal policy where I don't upgrade my GPU until it dies (I don't generally play the latest AAA games on my PC) and with just one outlier since 2004 I've had a new one about every 4-5 years. I've actually never had a CPU fail but I've had several HDDs die.
It didn't mean that for me because we've been sharing minimal css files for decades without without calling them frameworks or "classless". Usually when you see a new term, it describes a spin on the old act. If they had also called it a "serverless" CSS framework, I wouldn't have guessed they meant that the CSS file just doesn't make any HTTP requests.
That's may be causing an economic problem, but it isn't the problem itself.
> "Exploited" and "used for the intended purpose" are not interchangeable phrases.

Which is, precisely, the issue at hand here.
And if the police aren't liable, why are they putting people in jail?

Liability is not the only reason Google might choose to censor Covid keywords. They might do it because their users expect them to. They might do it because they think it's the right thing to do. They might do it because they care more about blocking disinformation than allowing useful information. They might do it because a programmer has been working on this really cool censoring algorithm and they want to test it in production. They might do it because they're tired of people talking about Covid on their platforms and want it shut down in general.

Section 230 applies to every major/minor platform in the US, granting all of them immunity from liability for most content. And yet, virtually all of them from Facebook to 4Chan, from Youtube to Pornhub, from Reddit to tiny 200-member Wordpress forums -- all of them censor some content. So liability is clearly not the only motivation for platforms to moderate, otherwise every comment section would be 8Chan.
I keep wishing he would do a podcast, even if it only released every two weeks.
people read/write chinese outside of China though...