skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odoacer was a career general in the Roman army, while "Romulus Augustus" was the kid of a former secretary of Attila. Odoacer took power with the benediction of the Senate and ruled in the name of the actual Emperor in Constantinople.

It's not any more or any less the end of the Western Roman Empire than the political troubles that occurred in the earlier and later centuries. The Gothic, Frankish or Vandalic kingdoms very much thought of themselves as belonging to a Roman world.
It's not like Twitter is deleting his posts though? Just adding an annotation pointing out the lies (eg that California lets "anyone" vote when voters actually have to be registered.)

If Trump posted that America was being invaded by little green men from outer space would it be unreasonable to annotate that too?
Akin to banning cigarette advertising, this will free up many millions in the war against misinformation. Would absolve Twitter from any future calls for debunking/censorship. Can't wait to see it enacted.
There's a nice 3.5 kW "toolbox" design for $650 here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVnQ87Fvsk4&

Great bang:buck ratio, at least if you can get a good price on that many 18650s.
Well how about that - today I learned people outside Canada don't say it the same way!
Why are they not a good fit? From a shallow reading, I thought Prosperity and the Polyform licenses would be fairly similar in intent to the licenses they have on their page. I can't imagine the authors (not author) of Polyform/Prosperity would care either way, and since nobody ever claimed those are open source licenses I don't understand your other ill-made point either. Maybe you refer to the Parity license? That one would make no sense in this context at all, and I doubt anybody would suggest it here.

Also, since your post is fairly negative and unsubstantiated overall, would you care to suggest an alternative?
Ask HN: How Covid-19 crisis have already changed the way we work?
In my opinion, and still, lots of challenges to be faced and uncertainties, there is a few that already changed forever:

- Companies will provide more freedom to their people to work from wherever they think it is better when they needed.

- 9 to 5 working hours is dead.

- Talent can be everywhere, without need to relocation.

- Real work-life balance is possible when no commuting and no tight schedule to work is needed.
Happy to use WSL2 in stable!
x86 Linux had PAE mode, where OS could use large memory, but single process was limited to 32bit. There was some performance overhead.
Can the solar panels be behind a window?

Puttin solar panels on the outside of my apartment would be diffcult and dangerous.

But putting them inside, so they get sunlight through a window would be easy.

Heck, I can even see me using solar panels instead of blinds.

Would that work? Or does the sunlight lose too much energy when going through glass? If so, how much energy gets lost?
Sounds like SKI combinators. Three combinators: S,K and I. I is technically optional.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
I'm not sure that refusing a gay wedding cake to a straight person would avoid your action as being discriminatory toward a protected class, since that's the effect. Perhaps it would.

I also don't know that I would want Trump to be silenced, since he's often his own worst critic.

I don't think Twitter is stopping him from saying bad things, either; in fact, they're pretty explicitly letting him say things, and they just happen to have something to say about what he's said, too.
> For example in Ruby everything literally is an object. There are no standalone functions. Not having a class simply makes it hard to use

Nothing prevents you from writing one function in a file, requiring that file and calling that function. Not sure what's so hard about it.
Add nodes to your private cloud using Cloud-init
Is it sane to buy any Amiga now in 2020?
How did this end up on the third page so quickly?
10 Not-So-Obvious Tips to Improve Customer Communication
Customer communication is something that needs constant upgrades. Otherwise, you are bound to lose clients. So, what does it take to improve customer communication? We've covered this issue here and included 10 tips to follow.
The author talks about the web as "one of humanity's greatest inventions." which is now in crisis:

> And now, we the architects of the modern web — web designers, UX designers, developers, creative directors, social media managers, data scientists, product managers, start-up people, strategists — are destroying it.

The interests of tech companies, investors and web professionals have not always aligned with the best interests of end-users and so there has been a gradual erosion of the freedoms embedded in the foundations of the web itself.

My favourite StarTrek moment is Captain Pike's statement "We are always in a fight for the future". Given the current state of the web, this feels truer than ever. Unlike the author, however, I don't think the answer is better web pages. Any chance of us winning the fight for user freedoms must be bigger and bolder than that.

There has been an entire generation of entrepreneurs and investors who have thought and planned strategically how to shape the web to work in their best interests. A meaningful counter has to be equally intentional and coordinated to stand a chance at shaping the course technology takes. We are in a fight for the future and we need to think bigger to stand a chance of winning that fight.
I really wish Microsoft would release a version of Windows 10 (the full version, not IoT) for the Pi 4 so developers could easily test their apps on an actual ARM device. Being able ship a Raspberry Pi 4 preloaded with Windows 10 to developers could bring a huge boost in the number of apps that support Windows on ARM.
Are there really no non-editorial ways Twitter could have addressed the factual errors? I don’t see the rationale behind picking this fight after so many years, at least in this way.
You have been Microsoft'd.
Trump is set to announce an executive order against social media companies
Under the hood it's using rollup. So it's benefiting from rollup's code splitting for those cases.
If there is state then it makes sense for it to be a class

But the parent comment applies
There's no rubble over the floor so it's most likely silt or mud from flooding/mud slide.
It was in their control, they could have gained solid skills in those 20 years to set them apart from a college grad. 20 years is a very long time, you could master several disciplines during that time, so if you fail to master even your main occupation it tells us something about you.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305068
Defining the server logic for an endpoint: three approaches
You say “I built”, but the inverter/charger/battery is an off the shelf unit - I have one from the same OEM here, 400Wh model, same outputs (but 230v ac), and I got a folding 150W panel for go with it. Works great as a stopgap for lighting, network stack, but 500Wh doesn’t go far with, say, a laptop, particularly after all the conversions.

Anyway. I guess your primary value add is in bundling it all together and telling people where to stick stuff via zoom, but “I built” is a bit misleading. I designed and installed a 5kva 4800 solar watt 42kWh system here, but I wouldn’t say I built it - I just stuck the bits I ordered together.
Hah, I have pendaticornered myself with the astronomical. I guess a better way of putting it is - 1 gig drives came out in 91, the 2 gig barracuda in 92. By 94, typical personal device storage would be a bigger fraction of 30 gigs than, say, current typical personal device storage as a fraction of a current backblaze 4u pod. A backblaze pod is pretty mundane.
Most of your list would probably remain intact. The main issue is that Go has a traditional garbage collector, and Nim has ARC, ORC, nogc, gogc, deferred reference counting, and more options for memory management.
Ok, now I need to know about these dent connoisseurs who measure their impact on fuel efficiency.
It uses rollup with a bunch of plugins internally.
On the other hand, Apple unintentionally granting a perpetual license on their interpretation of the WIMP GUI (admittedly not without perusing the look-and-feel lawsuit) is what kept Microsoft in the OS business.
Interesting, but a bit hard to make the economic case for it - it looks more suitable for camping/cabin use cases? It's not going to significantly reduce your energy consumption from the grid, since it doesn't tie into the house circuits.
Why would you report the ability to hide replies? If someone replies to my tweet with something I don’t like, what’s wrong with me hiding the reply?
It’s a lesser end result than blocking someone. I’m not obligated to platform your opinion on my post.
In this case I don't find it terribly misleading.

One thing that occurs to me regularly now is that I click on a submission that's new to me – only to find that I've already seen it under a different title.

I agree with the policy of renaming submissions, but I wish you'd adjust your trigger level slightly towards less changes.
An Executive Wish. It's meaningless.
It's understandable that everybody is blaming Microsoft for the way this was handled. But let's remember that we are only seeing one side of this story, we don't know what really went on from Microsoft and the team's side there.
Woops, that's my fault for reading too quickly. After going over it a couple of more times I agree that your reading is probably more inline with what they meant. In fairness, they're kind of missing a few verbs there and that ambiguity makes it difficult to nail down. I'll get rid of my previous post.
You're talking about s.f(x) vs f(s,x)?
Can't you close over the state, so the library doesn't need to see and pass around the extra parameters?
Most stories I hear about people that try carnivore doesn't do it to get on the next hip thing, these are people that suffered from something for years and out of sheer desperation tried something "wild" and it worked FOR THEM.

I don't understand how it is a garbage diet either? You get all the nutrients you need while eliminating pretty much everything else. That to me sounds like an excellent starting ground to then build upon and figure out what YOUR gut is cool with.
Proportionality. If you own one tenth of one percent of the stock you should have one tenth of one percent of the liability. No liability equals no responsibility equals no integrity. Being an amoral company should be just as likely to end in disaster as being an amoral person.
Backing down to who? It becomes US law.
I really liked this article (I found it after reading his newer one that was posted earlier today).

It’s also interesting that he links to a Cambridge Analytica talk to make his point in 2017 (before the scandal broke).

It’s even more accurate three years later.
Riot police deployed across Hong Kong as U.S.-China tensions rise – Reuters
Our household does all our grocery shopping online, and I'm pretty convinced people wouldn't rather visit a store. Rather, the online grocery shopping experience is broken.

Online grocery shopping mimics other online shopping UX, and that simply isn't how people shop in grocery stores. Grocery shopping is a communal thing. Kids ask to add things to the cart (or just toss it in). There's a lot of aisle browsing. You talk to the butcher to find out what's good. Right now, you buy meat online the same way you buy a vacuum. No wonder people would rather go to the store.

In our home, there's no way for me to browse the store without borrowing my wife's login, and browsing the store kinda sucks. Instacart is notoriously bad, and there are way better services out there (Good Eggs and Thrive are probably the best), but there's still usually one or two things wrong with every delivery. Having to talk to customer service every week gets exhausting.

Whoever cracks grocery UX will win.
The ICO raising and fall in 4 minutes
The Initial Coin Offering (ICO) was a tremendous event in Crypto and Finance world. This bar chart race show the raised money from the most successful ICO along the time.
Good call on "Alibaba-level", I was able to find this unit on there. Not gonna link because I don't want to stir up trouble.

But I'd like to set up a good system for my vehicle, and products like this make me nervous. China mass-produces a lot of good stuff but they've also got a deserved reputation for cutting corners when nobody's looking. An 18650 that's missing its overcharge circuit will happily self-ignite and take my beloved vehicle with it.

Remember all those reports of hoverboards spontaneously combusting a few years back? That was eventually traced back to bargain bin Li-Ion batteries from China. Before that, there was the spate of knock-off replacement batteries for cell phones that came with a free extra crispy option.

Larger companies doing business in the US fear the FTC and state governments enough to often have some form of electrical QA on anything they sell with a Chinese origin. In this case though I'd be assuming all the risk and I don't have the expertise to evaluate it for quality and safety myself.
The Age of Zoom Meetings for a person who stutters
This is exactly the use-case for Content-Type and Accept headers. The client and server negotiates what type of content they can receive/send, so if you're sending application/json as the Accept header, you can only handle application/json, if you only send text/html in the header, then only HTML. If the client understands both, you do application/json,text/html. with the order signalling preference.

Any serious framework would be able to handle this without any hiccups.
The sun is a great source of free energy.
Mark Zuckerberg, Dead at 36, Says Social Media Sites Shouldn't Fact Check Posts
> Suppose someone obtains and submits a bunch of mail in ballots. Ballots of people who don't normally vote etc. How would they even get caught?

For a start in California mail in ballots have to be signed and the signature has to match the registered voter's signature on file.

So you're assuming someone can steal a bunch of registered voters' ballots and fake their signatures.
On Designing for Motivation Waves
tl;dr Use the right tools appropriately.
If you're bit confused by what this is (as I was) here's a simple TLDR conversation I had with them on Twitter [1]:

> Me: Would you say Snowpack is mainly about generating ESM files (and their common code) for each import statement? Curious how that is different from webpack's code splitting strategy perhaps together with an ESM plugin

> Snowpack: Snowpack's dependency installation is a form of bundling + code-spliting: your entire dependency tree is bundled together and then split into one-file-per top-level package.

In other words: they're a code-splitting strategy where they "don't touch your code", they only look at it to find the dependencies and then they generate files (ESM modules) from the dependencies information. Then they serve that and let the (modern) browser do the rest.

Really simply idea but effective.

1. https://twitter.com/lmatteis/status/1262126825427415044
While this sounds great, it's a bit like when people say you can "choose what to believe". You cannot, in fact, choose what to believe. You either believe something or you don't. Similarly, with feeling successful, you either do feel that or you don't. It's not really under your control.

But what you can do is realise that things aren't always under your control so not to worry about them. Instead just concentrate on things you do have and things you can do. You have the power to be useful to society so do that. You have the power to do good things so do it. How you feel doesn't really matter.
I think they're probably fine without your dollars or mindshare.

I suspect part of the reason they're getting out of a lot of this commodity (or borderline commodity) businesses is because they make much more money on building power plants and wind turbines, jet engines, medical equipment (MRI/CT/PET/etc machines and more), etc.

Some quick digging, and it looks like their lighting and industrial controls division made all of $300m in profit. Their aviation products alone profited over $28b.

If I were them, I wouldn't care either.
From the last link you cited:

> Whoever buys the certificate can then claim that a certain amount of renewable electricity has been produced. Here’s where the problem is: the trade of certificates is not limited in space nor in time. It means that you can buy a certificate from a region disconnected from your electricity grid (space), or from the past (!) without making sure the electricity was stored (time).

I've commented before on HN[1] about how this critique of energy certificates doesn't make any sense, the fact that you can time-shift consumption is a feature, not a bug.

It helps if you think about it as a subsidy, which it is. You charge your battery on electrons produced at a coal plant and pay for e.g. 1 kWh of solar energy to be produced. That energy is then used to say charge a phone you just bought before it's delivered to you.

It's not as superficially emotionally satisfying as imagining that all your electrons are "pure", but they're fungible. Just as you could say emit 1 ton of CO^2 and sequester 2 tons of CO^2 somewhere else at some other time.

Did you just undo the pollution you emitted? I think so, but I think using your criteria you'd need to put that "cleanup" effort in another set of scare quotes.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21681772
It's sometimes not just about money. Any organisation that alows individuals and teams to freely pick and choose tools will end up with a huge pile of semi-forgotten systems and organisational knowledge spread over multiple wikis, sharepoint sites, trello boards, monday projects and word docs on shared drives and dropboxes. Seen it happen multiple times. Corparate use of "personal/hobbyist" free tiers of popular tools is not just a legal liability, it's also a security nightmare apart from the already mentioned infromation spread problems.
Wow, my experience is the exact opposite. All of my software engineering jobs have been through cold resume submission. And I've had quite a few jobs.
How about "landlord-friendly design," and "consumer-friendly prices," "renter-friendly" or somesuch.

Think about what you are trying to communicate. You can use "show-don't-tell" to imply superlatives. IE, let the reader colour in their own adjectives.

The messages are simple: You can intall it yourself in a rental. It costs $500.

You already show the price, and the specs. If you want/need more context, provide more context. Maybe price comparisons. Maybe you can contextualise the specs: battery can power these many devices, for this amount of time. The battery will charge in this amount of time, on an average October day.

Try to keep the number of messages small and think of your words in a utilitarian way. They have specific jobs. Are they trying to inform, convince, associate with another product? Do the simplest thing that gets the job done.
You can do this in Kotlin if you want to. It comes with coroutines support out of the box. With things like Channel and select you could implement trans as well.
Why Didn’t SpaceX Launch? Weather Got in the Way
The correlation between a stock and the S&P 500 does not accurately capture the total relationship between the two. Some companies are going to have higher exposure to the market (called beta) than others. So even if all stocks are rising and falling in lockstep, the magnitude of movements are going to be different for each individual stock. And like anything else in finance, savvy investors can exploit this to manage risk and outperform, even long-only funds during coronavirus.
You make it sound like there aren’t cookbooks for many of these scenarios and that the company will have to invent these scripts and procedures by hand.

Yes it is work, but this company’s whole reason for being is to save AWS spend, so I assume they have patterns they employ for their clients regularly that achieve their SLO.
Expert comments FWIW -

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-how-common-i...
The benefit is encapsulation.
HN does not editorialise and haphazardly censor.
Trump to sign executive order on social media on Thursday, White House says
Another data point. If you have difficulty with people talking about you, definitely don't move to a small town in a foreign country where you are a visible minority. I've yet to experience real negative discrimination amongst my neighbours, but boy are they interested in me! I'm kind of strange in that I like being the center of attention, but don't like spending energy to achieve that position, so it's kind of ideal for me. However, I've know people for whom it is haunting (Yes, they really do notice everything you do). If you need to buy things that are... um... delicate... best to go to another town -- and even then you aren't always safe ;-) When I first moved here, I was one of 2 visible minorities and I also taught at the high school, so everybody knew who I was. It's like being a celebrity without the money.
Ask HN: What should a kafka CLI tool bring to the table?
Hey guys,

I wanted to get some quick input on an idea of mine.

I use the kafka-console tools (like kafka-console-consumer.sh etc. ) on a daily basis and find them to be lacking some features and Quality-of-Life stuff.

Therefore i have some questions for a pet project of mine:

1) What features are the official kafka cli tools missing for your use cases? Example: I want an estimate on the number of messages in a topic

2) Are there Quality-of-Life improvements you crave? Example: I would like to stop reading at the high watermark.
Agreed, but what are you personally going to do, very specifically, to fight back?
The canonical answer is encapsulation. But in my view it's rarely a good idea to couple state related to an algorithm's invocation (e.g a cache) with the data structure itself.
> So telling the FCC is not telling the courts.

“Clarifying” regulation specifically is a message to the courts on interpretation; directing executive agencies to craft clarifying regulation is directing subordinate executive officers to tell the courts.
I'm sorry, I fail to see how having a more informed electorate is a partisan issue or a "losing move". That concept implies that the party this is "against" is only successful when the voters aren't well informed. The only side twitter is against is an intentionally misinformed userbase.

Twitter had already been fact-checking misinformation about covid-19 for harm reduction: https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/11/21254733/twitter-covid-19...

The political leaning of the head of site integrity is irrelevant, his job is a branch off of infosec and can be simplified to combating spam. If one person was using 10 accounts to hype up a fake cryptocurrency, the head of site integrity would be in charge of taking action to fight that. This case happens to be harm reduction in politics and not finance or health. Unfortunately there has been somewhat of a harassment campaign against the head of site integrity because people continue to misunderstand his role.

Facebook is currently synonymous with fake news. I think that in the long term, people will stop trust it completely, similar to how they've learn to avoid clickbait titles on articles.
I would guess the SK combinators.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKI_combinator_calculus
There is, it's called static. Just hide it in a .cpp file and expose the real function in a header file.