skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part I never get is how and when did we got into the mindset of, open source means free and the backlash Mozilla receives for trying to monetize their product. Either I'm reading too much in-between the lines or I'm missing something.
Monument in Georgia gives instructions in 8 languages on how to rebuild society
2020-06-02 – Snowflake Computing Major Feature Announcement
I'm a heavy user of the Snowflake data warehouse and was surprised to see no one was discussing today's announcements on HN. Some big stuff was announced today!
In practice, they do have that right. And they have the right to use reasonable force to enforce that. So arguing that police are always wrong to use force to clear an area, regardless if media are there or not, is an argument against the laws as they are.

That's a hard argument to make.
Chances are you are running yarn in a virtual terminal (iterm, xterm, gterm, etc). The framebuffer device doesn't represent your terminal window, but your physical display output (sort of, nowadays the framebuffer itself is emulated).
Why is it not possible? New platforms are started and grow all the time. For example, TikTok only came out in 2016 and is massive.
The trouble is that it's not just that nix is opinionated, it's that much of the complexity is in patterns and conventions that are implemented in nix. Learning everything about everything about the Nix toolchain is only one third of the battle; the rest is learning all of the conventions and patterns for writing Nix expressions, and these conventions and patterns are subject to variance between target languages. This is made terribly difficult because the language is dynamically typed and it's almost impossible to know about the "shape" of any given parameter because there is no way to know where it is defined in the enormous nixpkgs repo except to grep around and try to find the place where the caller is invoked, what is passed into it, and trace that back to an original import statement (and from there to a file on disk and the corresponding definition). That long tedious process is the hot path for developing in Nix.
I, and I believe most other people that share a similar view to mine, are not arguing for true zero moderation. I feel like you're trying act like me admitting that any moderation would make me a hypocrite.

I'm ok with them filtering "illegal content" or rather I don't think that's a choice that they have and is something to address within the legal system rather then at a social network level.

Abuse of the system? Like they are sending too much traffic/spamming/malware/etc is fine to limit. Threats, allow users to block each-other; I'm fine with restricting people who attempt to circumvent other peoples blocks.

Porn meh; I don't think it's a real issue I think it's great to allow users to filter pornographic content if they don't want to see it.

My issue is when they start getting into filtering out "incorrect" statements, "dangerous" ideas, even "hate speech" (an every expanding category), etc. It's very distressing that Jack Dorsey thinks twitter has a moral responsibility to remove certain viewpoints from discussions and believes that these discussion will shape the future of our society.
I've seen plenty of violence by protestors where the cops weren't even there. Do you blame the cops for that too?
Is there any software (preferably open source) that can be used to build one's own street views for areas/countries that are not covered by Google?
English is not that foreign though, it is also Germanic.
That’s my point. Those Raptors are heavy.
Maybe not as extreme but teacher's union is pretty bad about protecting members when accused/convicted of abuse. In any case, I was pointing out "reassigning to desk job" might be largely out of the hands of sergeants, and not just cronyism or racism.
I just started https://journal.petrausch.info/

As the name indicates I try to run it as a public journal. I write down stuff I learned without setting me any targets. The target audience is myself. In the last years I solved a lot of problems and just forgot the details. Local Journaling tooling had a bad search. So I started the public journal to leverage the Google search.
Works if you replace yield with spread, which is the standard convention in finance anyways.
I'm confused about how the human-readable domain names work. Are they just hard-coding certain addresses in the browser itself?
Anyon
Indeed I did try mawk and found it to be faster. However, when I try setting locale "LC_ALL=C"; the performance of both awk and mawk were almost the same. I also let it at awk in favor of portability -- mawk is not available on most systems and needs to be installed.
Anyone filing a DMCA counter-notice from outside the US agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of a US federal court, or else the counter-notice is invalid.
Cyberattacks since the murder of George Floyd
> Once we recognize that all men are created equally, racial violence ceases to be a debatable subject where it's reasonable to support it in any way or form.

Except this assumes that's what both sides of the argument are actually about. Just checking but do you realise this is an artificial construct that exists entirely in your own head? Zuckerberg in this particular instance, and the free speech absolutist argument in general does not imply acceptance that it's reasonable to support racial violence. Equating the two shows either an intent to deceive or quite intense confusion on the subject.
> In case you're serious, the point is redistribution.

That's the statement I'd like to see highlighted bold on every UBI proposal, so that everyone knows exactly what it is about.

Isn't it remarkable that at a time of the French Revolution (which one them by the way?) the society was significantly more equal in terms of their income than it is today? Maybe revolutions are caused by other reasons, like the lack of freedom and not being in control of your own life, for example? Especially when more than half of one's productive life is taken away and redistributed by a taxman.
I was thinking the 'attention grabbing' side as well.
Maybe their resources and funding were so borked they decided to throw a hail mary and hope for the best.
Depending on your financial situation, you could Buy an old line company and digitize it.

In the US, If you can get 500k from friends and family, you can buy a $5m company with a strong balance sheet and strong cash flow. It will give you a live Petri dish to test your ideas on how to do things better.
Microsoft Takes on Zoom and Slack in a Battle for Your Work Computer
Ask HN: Founders of startups, do you expect equity to be enticing?
I've worked at a plethora of startups by now, and even the one that went public, I've still made almost no money on given my equity. It's sort of what I expected, but even the companies that I really truly believed would do well, still didn't because of some random other issue (usually incompetent upper management/founders).

I ask, why do you expect a potential hire to appreciate X% of nothing when it's well known that most VC's that invest in your company know that you have a 99% chance of failing anyway, and thus diversify their portfolios with many startups to increase the risk of success. Why are employees expected to pretend anything otherwise? I'm so beyond the eyerolling phase of hearing that they'll pay you .75X of your current salary but give you equity to make up for that, it's just exhausting at this point, to be honest.
> "You already cannot discriminate against a customer because of certain characteristics of who they are (race, orientation, etc)."

Those laws are relatively recent. By your very own argument, doing all those things was perfectly A-OK before the laws that barred discrimination went into place. Oops.
Is the purchase price of a home or condo in San Francisco or the San Jose area being effected by the rent downturn? Thank you for any comments about that question.
One of the first comments mentioned “super mario brothers monopoly” being a well designed game for kids.

I’d like to add that the Star Wars monopoly is also very well designed and has a lot of new features that solve the biggest problems of the game taking too long, of those ahead almost always staying ahead and for the game being boring when itnisnt your turn.

Games finish in under an hour. They have cards that opponents can play during your turn to block or change your moves. Best of all, it’s only possibly for you (as a single player) to win if your side (datk or light) has the most point, making it an interesting semi-team game.

It’s a great game and I’ve played it with many professional game designers who also really like it.
It seems like in a democracy that voting should be able to effect the changes we need. What has gone wrong?
Hopefully they are better at making safe browsers than managing weblogs.
I'm curious just what percent of their revenues are from 20, 30 year old books.

Myself, I buy a lot of old books - but from the thrift store. The only reason the thrift store sells them is because people dump their valueless books on them.
> Unfortunately Unix blew a 28-3 lead against Netscape Navigator and now 99% of people spend their time in web browsers instead.

There might be exceptions, but people generally don't develop software in their browser.
One-way data binding is what made React successful. Angular took a long time playing catch-up and with Vue it was optional.
This officer claimed he feared for his life. No charges were brought. The dashcam video is supposed to be exculpatory, but that's not how I see it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/04/zachary-hamm...
Embedded developers still need fbdev. There are lots of display-enabled SoCs that don't have or need a GPU.
"...as it should be."

Hey, don't try to convince me. I spend most of the hundreds of dollars I pay for books every year at used book stores and things like estate sales.

I am literally Satan.
For sure, but why would the Wisconsinites be behaving any differently in terms of violence, looting, etc.? I suppose it could be selection bias. Maybe it takes a higher level of anger to drive a couple hours than to go someplace local, and that's more correlated with violent behavior.
When unfettered capitalism is resulting in extreme wealth inequality where workers are struggling to pay the rent while working full time, and "tradition" involves the oppression of minorities, you're damn right they're going to riot.
I count 8 preachers and missionaries in my family, going back to my grandparent's generation. The first husband of one of my aunts died as a missionary pilot in SE Asia.

I don't agree with your assessment.
That's the most frightening thing I've heard in this entire mess. The rule against the military intervening in domestic affairs is hugely important. We can't afford to lose that in the heat of the moment.
Trump Administration Escalates Global Fight over Taxing Tech
How to Become a Successful Artist
Jerry (YC S17) Roles in Engineering/Product (Toronto, SF Bay Area, China Remote)
Not really. We are afforded a window into how he thinks outside of these channels that are managed by his aides. Muzzling that denies us insight into who he is.
The examples you mention work well because there is a real world affordance (the wheel, the act of throwing) that the gesture maps to. I agree that rotating a wheel gesturally makes more sense as an interaction in VR than the same action does with a mouse pointer.

The grenade example is a good one, because throwing/flicking doesn't require much feedback, unlike say rotation or fine grained manipulation. Of course the interaction would feel nicer if you could feel the weight of what you're throwing - the physics of throwing objects always feels kind of off in VR games - but it still works well enough. Note that many games did this with the Wiimote, and there is nothing about that interaction that is singular to VR.

However, the moment you lose that affordance based in a real world object, and ask your user/player to make gestures in mid air based on recollection, things really do start to fall apart. There is a host of HCI literature/projects around this - e.g. check out papers/demos from the Kinect era. An RPG game like the one you describe could be made with Kinect, and I vaguely recall a few in development - but Kinect demonstrated well that the only kind of gestural interaction that works in long term sessions is dancing.

Btw, this is why if you go to e.g. the VR center in Tokyo, almost every booth has physical props for you to hold/grip/sit on while you're fishing/golfing/shooting a gun/riding a bike in VR.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6673316...
it is a web app. You can run it fully in the browser. Local executable is just an Electron app iirc. I don't have it install on my work machine, but I frequently access and manipulate Figma files from Chrome just fine.
After re-reading this, I think I left out some detail about the purpose of the Union leader.

They have a fiduciary responsibility to protect the union (the members and the dues). They are not accountable to or elected by the public (in their role as union leader).

That said, they don't have to be cartoonish villains, but frequently are because their role is to pull heartstrings for police officers, not for the civilian/victim in the narrative.
I can't really argue with you there. This is one of those situations where the path paved to hell is paved with good intentions in my mind. I don't want Trump saying shit like this, but if any government official is saying something shitty I want to know.
no, because you need to publish your data to do anything, which means they can't track anyone who's phone they don't have, and they can't track anyone who's details haven't been published.

So all the can actually track are people's who's phones they already have complete unlocked access to. At that point they can just read out the google and Facebook tracking data and subpoena them for the full information.
You're going to love what it does to your sense of taste. The problem is, you're likely to gain weight as well.
hey peterkos, great question! We ensure reliable delivery times through a variety of strategies:

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We already know quite a bit about the world. Unclear why should we reach out into the fog of unknown for some cutting edge unproven state-of-the-art system, when there are quite a bit of well established and widely agreed upon known ones that can get us 90% of the way there, with much lower risks of catastrophic failure.

Case in point: covid19 policies inadvertently triggering the mega-depression of 2020 and beyond, for what appears to be relatively minor medical gains in the big picture. How bad can you botch it if it takes 5 months to come up with 'masks are good, perhaps, more research is needed' from a peer reviewed source, when even a 14 year old could have been told you that's rather a good idea all the way back in January.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
A little about the source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Affairs
No, it's encrypted either way. With FileVault enabled it just won't automatically mount and decrypt when connected to the T2 chip
Which current decentralized DNS projects are you referring to?
Good thing I don't have to do this to buy Bitcoin.
The evidence is weak, they cost money.

AFAICT Vitamin D supplementation may well be snake oil, as low vitamin D levels may be symptomatic of another condition which supplementing won't help.
Google "Black Wall street massacre." There are plenty of articles.

We probably don't hear more about it because it makes white people uncomfortable.
Interracial marriage in US became legal only in 1967
I'm replying to this "There are so many countries around the world that do fine without the violence, brutality and military gear the US forces use."

I'd love to see someone identify a country where the police have never been accused of violence or brutality.
Really? The site that tracks police killed in the line of duty lists 1975 as the last time a Camden police officer died.

Another surprising fact is the last two NYPD officers to be killed on duty, the total of all NYPD officers killed on duty in the last three years, were both shot by other NYPD officers.
As a technical writer, I often find board game rules suffer from poor writing. They often present information backwards: they start by telling you every thing about every piece and situation before you really understand the basics of play. This makes it difficult to piece together how to play the game.

I'd much rather see board game instructions written as starting out with a VERY short summary of the game and its objectives (e.g. for Dominion: "in this game, you build a deck of cards that you use to purchase victory points. At the end of the game, the player with the most victory points wins."). Then you can follow that up with set up instructions, a simple explanation of a basic turn, followed by more detailed descriptions of gameplay and ending conditions, and finally close with detailed reference material.
It's odd that TFA has this focus on performance but doesn't mention which awk implementation has been used; at least I haven't found any mention of it. There are 3-4 implementations in mainstream use: nawk (the one true awk, an ancient version of which is installed on Mac OS by default), mawk (installed on eg. Ubuntu by default), gawk (on RH by default last I checked), or busybox-awk. Tip: mawk is much faster than the others and to get performance out of gawk you should use LANG=C (and also because of crashes with complex regexpes in Unicode locales in some versions of gawk 3 and 4).
They're not scared overall though. Yes, the guys on the front line against the riots, maybe. Those shooting at press, people on their porches, spraying directly in the faces of unarmed people passing by... no, they're not afraid.
It's good that you emailed because I probably wouldn't have seen the question otherwise. That's one main reason the guidelines ask people to email us with questions instead of posting them on the site (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). There's far too much material here for us to see it all.
Isn't the point actually to see if people's lives improve?

If i get 2k a month and spend it on drugs, you don't see quality of life improve.

It is being spent well because they are keeping a roof over their heads and themselves fed and not worrying about where thhe next meal comes from.
>There were two "Reigns of Terror," if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break?
Just a few days ago, we had this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23358863 complaining about SQLite not being available in browsers and now we see an actual application using SQLite in a browser :D
> [Citation needed]

If you had simply asked me to share what I know, I would have given you some links. But I have a distaste for the "[Citation Needed]" meme because it's pompous, so I suggest you do some basic research yourself. If you can do 2nd grade arithmetic, you can figure out that 2 or more deaths is greater than 1 death. If you've even watched a minute of TV in the last 5 days, I shouldn't have to argue whether more people's lives have been destroyed than if the riots didn't happen at all.

> I find it hard to believe that a few days of these riots has caused more damage and loss of life than generations of racial oppression and police brutality.

That's not even close to what I said.
so maybe guixsd ?
In fairness, I think that line of defense is more a moral, rather than legal, argument.
We have a system of Democracy that emphasizes property over people.
How many innocent people have been shot by cops?
I believe you can publish your own images and have them available via Google Maps but I've never done it. This might be a decent starting point: https://www.google.com/streetview/contributors/
Prisoner's dilemma. Bipartisanship is "cooperate", divisiveness is "defect". Cooperating with a defector results in losing badly. The right have worked this out and are playing "defect" continuously. And currently "winning".

We have to change the payoff matrix.
Recoil 0.0.8
Or, apparently anyone criticizing them. They’re very invested in stopping that.
I also have the feeling that the tutorials start with the details, instead of starting with an overview so you can understand what is what.

When you are trying to be as different from everything else as wide-reachingly as Nix is, it seems to work better to build an understanding up rather than down. This seems to frustrate a lot of people because it does not give much payoff for the first few hours of learning (and that's a lot to invest to even understand what something is). The truth is that Nix is really really complicated (expect a year-long learning curve to truly "get" everything), but it's also really hard to take the more-standard approaches to building packages and managing machines seriously once all the pieces finally do all connect. Unfortunately, it kind of makes one feel like being an early adopter of git in a world where no one else uses version control. It's like, "Yes, this is way better, but I'm not going to be able to get anyone else to use it."
A movie doesn't have to cost $320M - by way of example, the Blender Institute's freely available movies cost far less than that to make. Movie making is a "multi-billion dollar industry" only because of the incredible amount of sheer waste that's involved in that pursuit.
> "Waiting until we're more sure about something" is not actually waiting, it is an affirmative decision to disregard what we think we know right now.

No, it's an affirmative choice to not impose a public policy on everyone based on what we think we know right now. And often that is the right choice.

> To make such an argument requires attacking that knowledge directly, showing specifically how it's wrong. Not just vaguely complaining that it's not good enough yet.

You have this backwards. Claimed knowledge doesn't get to be assumed to be right until it's shown to be wrong. It needs to demonstrate that it's right with a sufficient level of confidence before it even gets considered at all. "Not good enough yet" just means "you haven't shown your claims to be right with enough confidence to make them worth considering in this public policy debate".

> leaders act to address needs in real time, making the best decisions they can with the information available to them.

"Leaders" aren't the only ones who act to address needs in real time and make decisions. Everybody does that. Often the best thing for "leaders" to do is to not make any decisions at all as "leaders", but to simply let individual people, who have far more accurate information about their individual situations than any "leader" can possibly have, make their own decisions.

For a "leader" to make a decision and dictate a public policy, the policy needs to be based on knowledge that is strong enough to justify overriding the billions of individual decisions that people are making all the time about their individual lives, with a top-down dictated decision that everybody must follow. That's a much, much stricter requirement than most people appear to think.