skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm one of the founders. The site crashed due to the traffic, we sold the technology, IP and some of the key talent joined Foxconn late last year; and scaled back our servers during the transition.

I'm a keyboard enthusiast, it started with an IMB model M and that's how the original prototypes started. The feedback regarding adopting Apple design and ergonomics was a reflection that our main strategic partner, investor, and eventually owner was Foxconn, and the customers we engaged with were B2B and set the spec.

For our Macbook projects, it was specifically a Butterfly switch spec we have to match in performance and design. I'd have loved to create a product aligned to what you're referring to, but strategically we have to achieve a MOQ of displays to be economically feasible, and our cooperation with Apple was easier to secure the 300k of displays required than trying to tackle the B2C premium keyboard consumer market.
> I guess we'll never know.

Statistics give clues, and strongly suggest the method is quite effective at saving non-machete-wielding lives.

> It's ridiculous that it takes six or seven officers so long to neutralize the threat, which may not even have been a real threat.

I think what you're implying here is that it's ridiculous to spend a few hours of a few officers work day to save a life.

Better to kill someone, at least it's over quickly and doesn't need as much... salary?

> They'll better be good at keeping him occupied with trivia questions until the properly equipped force shows up.

The point of the video is that, indeed, they are effective at keeping someone occupied until the properly equipped force shows up, and that it is possible to do that without just killing people when they are freaking out.

It is hardly just trivia questions. If you were paying attention to the video, the positioning of the cars and officers was intentional, to contain the situation while de-escalating it.
That is definitely true.

This however, is still a problem for Facebook, and the greater society, which seems to disagree with them more and more.
People really want Zuckerberg to decide whether posts of the president should be deleted or not? Is this for real?

We really need mainstream decentralized applications more than ever. Thoughts of people should not be censored. Who the hell should be the truth police? You? People that have the same beliefs as you?

This is just ridiculous. I don't like Facebook but great decision by Mark. Same as they decided to not remove political ads.
Small shout out for Sir Maurice Wilkes, who was involved in some of the earliest stored program concept computers back in the late 40s (designed and built EDSAC in 48/49, and the inventor of microprogramming in the early 50s. Worked in the Computer Lab in Cambridge for years, spent some time in the US, and returned to the lab in the early 2000's. Was still a feature in the labs until not long before his death in 2010, at the grand old age of 97. Would have been around the 60 odd year mark at that stage. I can't speak to how much he was working at that stage, but still a very impressive career and a very impressive individual.
I'd go with `craco`, personally.
So combined US assets are worth a great deal, enough so the declining equity position of (consumers+businesses+government) in those assets has not been significant. That makes sense. Thank you.
“Mark is wrong, and I will endeavor in the loudest possible way to change his mind,” wrote Ryan Freitas, whose Twitter account identifies him as director of product design for Facebook’s News Feed. He added he had mobilized “50+ likeminded folks” to lobby for internal change.

Jason Toff, identified as director of product management, wrote: “I work at Facebook and I am not proud of how we’re showing up. The majority of coworkers I’ve spoken to feel the same way. We are making our voice heard.”

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"endeavor in the loudest possible way"?

"not proud of how we're showing up"?

If "the majority of coworkers" and "50+ likeminded folks" are so passionate about it... stop working for the company. Quit, make a fucking sacrifice and stop thinking that somehow you're going to change Zuck's mind.

Money is a hell of a drug.
The fight back from the community that makes such companies loose interest in GNU/Linux, specially the attack of FOSS clones.
I fully agree with his opinion!
This deserves to be in the top of HN!
lol that certainly is a statement you cannot back up. Even Fox News has an article saying there's not enough evidence to show any bias at facebook https://www.foxnews.com/tech/is-facebook-as-left-leaning-as-...
What is the ten-year survival rate for companies after a leveraged buyout? It has to be near zero right?
Some may also be much more financially sound to back up their talk with resignations or other actions if they feel strongly that their employer does things that don't sit well with them.
The interesting thing about these claims is that in many there are multiple film views of the same incident, and in the CNN case there was an apology issued.

What exactly are you skeptical about?
Agree with the point about SemWeb. AFAIK, RDF/OWL/SPARQL is kindof a long-term pet project of TBL's, and now with SOLID IMHO he's kindof reusing parts of it as a 2nd chance to finally become mainstream (with weaving and creatively interpreting specs as is typical of SemWeb). What SOLID wants to achieve, though (a federated, less centralized web) is too important an initiative to let it become a case of puzzling out an utopian stack based on tech that has failed mainstream adoption, so unfortunately can't be taken seriously, and seems more like a project for fundraising TBL's pet project. Saying this as someone who has just recently worked with SPARQL and graph DBs in bioinformatics which is one of the domains where it actually has gained traction.
What's "a good sig"? And what do you mean by "once the mission is opened " and "will drop all callsigns"?
I loved The Expanse. But you just made me wonder how the colony ship could possibly be practical, because it has to function in both those modes and I don't know how you'd design the interior spaces for that. Unless you had spaces that could only be used in one mode or another, which seems like a big waste.
Explain the big picture abstraction differences between this and React in two sentences? I don't care about compiler vs interpreter implementation details.
I'm reposting part of a comment I wrote (and adding to it).

My version on how to become a hacker. It's just another reference point.

Step 1: Go to http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

Step 1b (bonus): read Hacker News (it actually helped, it also really distracted, the latter part is why it's labeled as bonus)

Step 2: Complete Binary and Malware Analysis at the Vrije Universiteit

Step 3: Complete Computer and Network Security at the Vrije Universiteit

Step 4: Complete Hardware Security at the Vrije Universiteit

Step 4b (bonus, I mean, you're there now anyway): Complete Kernel Programming at the Vrije Universiteit

Step 5: Go to https://hackthebox.eu, hack at least 1 easy, 1 medium, 1 hard and -- for good measure -- 1 insane box

Congratulations, you are now a hacker in every sense of the word:

1. You broke into computer systems.

2. You needed to be curious in order to do it.

This took me 8 months, personally (60 hours per week). I found it a lot of fun. It could take you a lot less time or more time.

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I'm assuming you already know how to program, if you don't then get the following prerequisite knowledge.

Step 1: do CS50 in order to learn programming and learn how to learn programming languages. What I've seen in students is that the first 6 weeks are experienced as more difficult than the last 6 weeks (hint: it's because you start off with C). So don't get discouraged. If this is not you and it is the other way around, I've seen that too (though, I've seen it less. It depends on the default mode of thinking that a person uses).

Step 2: do https://www.nand2tetris.org/ to understand computer systems and get some assembly under your belt.

Step 3: if you feel like this road is too rigid, do a project that you're interested in here. Get it out of your system now, because the above mentioned stuff took me 10 months, personally. Create a computer graphics engine with OpenGL and Java. Yes, you could do C++ but that's complicating things for now. If you really want to though, go ahead, C++ is a fine choice if you're burning with passion.

These 3 steps probably take between 4 to 8 months. Some people with a hacker mindset could do this within 2 months, or 1 month even (email me if you did!). Some people that have other stuff going on in their lives will do this in 8+ months. It's all fine.
Because their tooling knowledge is rearranging deck chairs on the titanic compared to their willingness to sell out their own people for a buck.
"Taken together, we argue that the results are most consistent with, but in no way proof of, tastebased discrimination among police officers who face convex costs of excessive use of force. Yet, the data does more to provide a more compelling case that there is no discrimination in officer-involved shootings than it does to illuminate the reasons behind racial differences in non-lethal uses of force."

I'm rather confused as to what the conclusion is here. Reading through the entire introduction of the paper, my impression is that it supports that there is not a statistically significant discrimination in the numbers of shootings of black people by officers; that in a similar situation, race does not increase the likelihood of a shooting. Am I reading this right?
I don't follow your logic.

The description "from the horrific consequences of atomic bombs dropped on Japan" is written and reads as nonessential, meaning it goes without saying but is nevertheless helpful in qualifying how "scientists now knew" within context of the article's chronological prose.

I understood the parent's remark as rejecting this factual inaccuracy.
I had to sketch it, but it looks like the angle of view only depends on the angles of the wall, not where the narrow part is...
https://postimg.cc/ykwFjD62
You can also use socket activation in uWSGI for this, together with a reasonable value for die-on-idle.

What's nice about it is that applications run unmodified.

uWSGI really is the swiss army toolchain for web operations.
A bit orthogonal to the actual discussion at hand, but I've become a big proponent of cargo-culting in a pragmatic fashion. I definitely ensure that everything is done in the "Rails Way" for any Ruby on Rails code, despite not necessarily agreeing with what's considered the "Rails Way" by rubocop or general rails developer consensus. If I'm doing code review for my colleagues I'll force them to refactor their changes into idiomatic Rails code, even if it's perfectly functional code. I'm less strict on JS or other languages, purely because I lack the experience to say what's the "right" or "wrong" way.

If your codebase follows a well-recognised style and pattern, it becomes a lot easier for new hires or contractors to get on their feet and start productive work than if you have some kind of brilliant idiosyncratic codebase that takes 3 months for a new hire to get their head around (as was the case when I joined my current company).
> From this quote "Black people are 3x more likely to be killed by police than white people".

How is that a "white vs black thing"? That's direct evidence of the sites premise; police are more likely to be deadly violent towards black people.

The site makes no claim to causation, it's just numbers. The rest of your numbers are "whataboutism" but also continue to show that the way the police operate is problematic. That police are more likely to be brutal towards men than women is another issue, not the issue this site is trying to raise awareness off.
Visual Studio Code and Python: Getting Started
I've had good results from using `git filter-branch --index-filter` to keep everything related to the exported package and remove everything else. This keeps commit history in such a way that `git log --follow` still shows older commits in the new repo, which is nice. I could never figure out how to make that work with `git subtree`.
Trump got the FCC involved in his war against Twitter
The billions of users of Facebook might not appreciate a censored view of the world. The shareholders might have something to say about it too.
>Finally, we get a non-journaled semi-cross-platform filesystem. fat32 just wasn't cutting it... /s

Hope you never had to store files larger than 4GB otherwise FAT32 would not work for you. (Before you respond with "that's what archive files / files splitting are for", not every device that takes files on an SD card and supports FAT32 has a way to join files on the fly/a way to read archived files.)
San Francisco faces fiscal chaos
Who wants to work for a company where they're living in constant fear of being outed as a non-leftist and losing their job?

I get the frequent recruiting emails from FB and (much less frequently) Google, but am really too afraid to pursue them.
Which Degrees Do Software Developers Earn?
This is so spot on except for this:

> You don't know them because you don't get to them until 10y+ after you graduate.

I think it's actually much quicker. A degree matters most for your first few jobs after you graduate, and your first few jobs matter a lot for your career.
And those who can't teach, research.
What do you use your iPad for?
I've recently bought a 12.9 iPad pro and have struggled to find a good use case. For me, a kindle is better for books, paper and pen is better for notes, and a computer is better productivity.
5. (Optional) Establish some Oversight Council or Committee, to be disenfranchised, dissolved, or declawed at the company's earliest convenience.
Ditto. The only people who cared about it were the Grad School applications, and the occasional (and ever-rarer) entry-level job application.

After 2 years in the field no one gives a damn. The degree is basically just a box for HR to check off.
As a worst case scenario, when somebody asked for clarification between 'm' and 'n', I responded with "m as in mnemonic". Not only did it fail to resolve the question, it was perhaps the worst word I could have chosen.
Facebook is reality, but it's also just a game. It goes like this: how deep can we go exploiting people by using information technology. How much "person" can we extract? How far can we go controlling this person (e.g. make sure user is happy, etc.).

The second game is: How can we PR our way out of the nightmares we knowingly create month after month?

It amazes me every day how the corporation and all its employees are able to maintain the BS level required to believe in the "mission" of the company.

If you can imagine it, I never had an active account in my life and I am happy about it. And believe it or not, I still do exists have friends and family and a "social" life.
I'm one of the founders, I exited after the acquisition and now work in VC.
It's absolutely possible, the custom EPD was $40USD, we used injection molder keys, and a delrin keyframe. The remaining components for the display timing controller and the keyboard controller were dollars each at scale (excluding the TCM chip which was relatively expensive).
The entire BOM cost of goods was far under $100, and was comparable to a Macbook butterfly switch keyboard module.

The entire design with Foxconn / it's customers was specifically for MOQ's of 300k units. We did beta units to 40+ countries.

The NRE for the display was also double your estimate and took around 9+ months to get finished + a few months of delays due to terrible yields on the first Mass produced units.
FAANG talking down on other FAANG seems funny.
Yeah, calls for murdering people by the president don't present any new thing for us to consider potentially new processes might apply, he's definitely not a person with enormous power, and he's definitely acting in good faith.

Thoughts of people are censored by themselves constantly because of the potential harm they cause, if you cant muzzle yourself and you call for violence expect others to do it for you.

People have died when Trump has tweeted, and he has shown no remorse or guilt, in fact he takes no responsibility.

So, who the heck would want him on their platform? Why would you spend your server time and money on a child-brained fascist?
>So combined US assets are worth a great deal

Aggregate US household net worth is now upwards of $100 trillion.

That puts the $25 trillion in US National debt in perspective.
Most of those guys operated under circumstances vastly different from today.

If you can land a job like those at PARC or Bell Labs, then yes, "carreer hacking" is certainly possible. Considering how many IT professionals there are now and how few there were back then, I'd say those kinds of jobs are even more scarce now than they used to be.

It's not impossible, but it's not a realistic expectation.

> If you’re devoting a third of it to something completely unrelated to your passion

A programming job is likely to be as far from any kind of hacking passion as any other, with the added disadvantage of possibly poisoning the well, so to speak.
It's not real. This is fake news working for the Democrats.
>Who the hell should be the truth police? You? People that have the same beliefs as you?

Except Facebook is a private platform. That people use it does not make it a public platform. That would be like arguing that Six Flags over Georgia can't remove you from their park because you started protesting in it. Yes, there are people there, but no, just because they're there and it's a popular place doesn't mean they can't remove you if they want to (so long as they're not breaking another law by doing it).
> Where did you provide clear examples? If you mean Hillary Clinton then you do realize there have been six separate investigations and no charges.

The "no charges" part is the problem. Per the Wikipedia page [1]:

> An FBI examination of Clinton's server found over 100 emails containing classified information, including 65 emails deemed "Secret" and 22 deemed "Top Secret". An additional 2,093 emails not marked classified were retroactively classified by the State Department.

This is against the law. No charges were made.

Do you seriously want me to link you to Wikipedia pages for the cases I referenced or are you capable of finding them yourself?

> Did you know that what happened in the Clinton case is not an uncommon occurrence? Did you know that Bush did the same thing? And Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump did the same?

So I guess it's your turn for whataboutism?

It was your point that things have changed now and the rule of law means less. It was my point that things haven't changed as much as you think they have, because they were happening in the prior administration.

You are supporting my point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controve...
Who says people have not considered both sides, reasoned, and then come to a conclusion? Considering both sides does not mean forbidding conclusions to be made. It's clear that I find your level of skepticism to be too far for the context, we'll have to agree to disagree there.

(edits for bad spellcheck)

But at the end of the day, your stance is already siding with someone by default, the side in power. You can claim neutrality ideologically, but that's useless in practicality. I'm sorry that you are disconnected enough from the world to not take sides or draw conclusions (even with caveats) unless you have a level of information that is practically impossible to gain.
I like 80-ish character lines. I'm glad Linus is yelling about this though, dogmatic beliefs are the root of much evil.
In your opinion whose view best represents "the population as a whole," and what percentage of the conversation does their opinion represent?
As someone that will work well past retirement age, what lessons or wisdom could you impart on us youngins'?
The EU is beginning to believe the UK wants Brexit trade talks to fail
Facebook is doing the same thing with some political ads (the ones that criticize Trump, of course) - https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/08/lincoln-project-called-faceb...
University seems to just be about self-edification, but it is sometimes not about that at all, and always about a whole lot more. It is clear there are too many people going to University. It has become a status symbol, driven partly by the baby boomers who just seem to like the idea of their kids going to University, and who are wealthy enough that their kids (of which I am one) are happy to swan about getting educated for 3 - 8 years. My father's experience was very different. He was actively criticised in his family for wanting to go to University, and had to get up at 4am to haul fruit crates to pay his way. His brother who went and got a job straight out of school was considered the smart one. Nevermind that the brother later went to University and became a lecturer, which comes to my next point.

When I was in University, I didn't really appreciate that it is mainly about cachet. Yes there are great experiences, you meet great people, you can be inspired, it opens your mind, you can do great work, but the thing that gets people in the door, and the thing that Universities are primarily selling, is cachet. It's interesting seeing how Covid19 interacts with this. Lots of people must be worried that their university cachet will be tainted by pandemic restrictions if they are the in the 'class of 2020'. This could be one reason for the massive number of students deferring.

So if the cachet matters to you (and your future employers), yes you should defintiely go to University, there is no substitute. There are also some jobs you can't do, or even really comprehend, unless you go to University (medicine, dentistry, civil/mechanical/electrical/aerospace/chemical/environmental engineering). In one sense these degrees are worth paying for up to a point, because it actually takes a lot of effort, facilities and equipment to offer them.
Oh my god, this is brilliant. "S as in Serial" and "Y as in You" are two I'll definitely be using if I want to be annoying.
Innovators in Cameroon are helping to fight Covid-19
At least in EU, discriminating based on political beliefs goes against art. 21 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Pardon my ignorance but, is that allowed in the US?
Also a huge deal for grid-scale applications. We've seen Tesla do that with lithium ion batteries for grid stability and energy price arbitrage, but if it were cheap and easy to produce batteries at massive scale without needing relatively rare elements like lithium, maybe we'd have big enough batteries to run the whole grid overnight off of solar.
Court orders government to compensate Clive Chirwa K15 m
Ahh, thanks! So if I understand correctly, it's because its stable isotopes can only be produced in high quantities through fission rather than fusion (otherwise they get destroyed in the same processes).
Both Russia and the US have a strong tradition of "demotivational posters", shared online.

I've assumed this is because both countries had the non-lamp shaded version first.

Do any of you all live somewhere that has demotivational posters as a common meme, but never had the propaganda poster?
Lithium, beryllium and boron are rare because although they are produced by nuclear fusion, they are destroyed by other fusion reactions in the stars.

This property is used to distinguish low mass stars and brown dwarfs.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_lithium_problem#O...
My annoyance with that talk is he never compared Svelte with multi-threaded React. It was the natural next thing to look at but it was like “okay my point stands let’s move on” haha.
No, it looks like they are only interested in taking down comments they disagree with.

I bet they haven’t commented on leaving up comments up by people they agree with which could be inflammatory.

So people are happy Twitter can manipulate messages, but unhappy Facebook is not manipulating messages because it goes counter to their PoV!