skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I don’t disagree that SF is a mess, your example is completely wrong. That lot will become low-income housing and is temporarily being used as that.

https://sfmohcd.org/730-stanyan
looking at the ESR version the updates only go back to 2007, but I thought I originally read it in 1996. Whatever it was, it was very similar. I miss that feeling of finding mysterious text files from the elders of the internet. I used to think the changes in technology killed that feeling, but now I have a hunch that I just got older.
Anonymous Hackers Threatened to “Expose Many Crimes of the Minneapolis Police”
To the general public these are effectively the same.
I've always been partial to the laughing man from Ghost in the Shell. This would be a perfect use case :P
Does anyone else experience that if you highlight the seconds counting down on the webpage that they disappear?

And that if you reload the webpage, it's always at the appropriate seconds for 24 hours?
BtrFS and Docker:

https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/27653

Something that comes up once and while.
The qualified immunity doctrine is a judge-created limitation on claims based on violations of federal constitutional rights. It doesn't preclude legislatures from creating causes of action under state law to allow officers to be held accountable.
C++ Lambdas, Threads, Std:Async and Parallel Algorithms
Well I guess they were right. They do have a lot of courage
I have a different reading of this. I think this is them doing the best they can within the limits set by microsoft's legal department. They cannot legally admit they looked at his code and copied the structure, because that opens them up to a copyright suit. In the blog post it seems they went as far as they could: admitting to being influenced by the ideas, without having actually copied any of the code.

If they really want to fix this, they need to pay AppGet's author some money, and get something in writing so they are legally protected from copyright suits. I assume they're negotiating this right now, and that once this deal is done there will be another blog post that is more genuine.

They really messed this up because it would have been cheap to get something in writing before releasing WinGet. Someone at microsoft legal dropped the ball.
How else do you enforce ethic other than reactively? Until we have minority-report style pre-crime reporting, lawyers decide who is punished on ethical grounds.

> Now, is it an ethical dilemma if you are asked to write firmware that disables a redundant safety sensor unless the customer pays additional fees?

Not for the engineers. They get a spec, they don't write it. Is it unethical to stab someone on the street? yes, but not for the knife manufacturer. Beyond that, it's for lawyers to decide the laws, and how they are enforced e.g. limits of who knifes can be sold to, and punishments for non compliance. It's likely the above scenario doesn't, because it's illegal, not because SWEs refused to do it on any other grounds. If it isn't illegal, they'll just find someone else to do it.

> engineer who makes these design choices is not shielded from the legal repercussion of his actions no matter how many times his supervisor told him to even assuming he is willing to be responsible

There has to be a law to break. If you are assuming everything unethical is illegal, why bother with ethics - just give engineers training in the law. Or, don't bother, and instead run everything by a lawyer.
Does anyone ever desolder their parts?
You're likely correct: it feels like it wasn't subjected to any UX research. Knowing how Apple works, it was probably demoed in front of a few higher-ups, but nobody other than the person or team writing it used the feature long enough to notice that some people would be confused by it.

And you're correct, I never use full screen. I don't think it's weird to use it, it just doesn't suit my workflow (single large monitor, so I need a lot of stuff side-by-side).
Apparently, stereotypes are OK when it is white people.
They do not provide a necessary public service; it's not drinking water or heat, you would be perfectly fine existing without Facebook. It's their private platform, they should do what's morally right by them, which is apparently doing nothing.
Canuck here who spends a lot of time in the States (or used to). SLC also has some of the most underrated and inexpensive skiing just 30 minutes out from the airport.
I hated Hertz with a passion. On one occasion I reserved a compact car. When I arrived they didn't have any available, so they "upgraded" me to an Infiniti Q60. The Q60 is a two-door car; the other couple we were traveling with were older and it would have been extremely difficult for them to get in and out of the back seat. Fortunately, they had rented an SUV, so when we went to the same places on our trip we went in their car.

The trunk on the Q60 wasn't big enough to hold all our luggage, the car required super-premium gas, it got crap gas mileage, and after the trip Hertz tried to bill me $150 for gas, even though I had paid the premium for a gas fill up at the end. I swore I would NEVER rent from Hertz again. I even cancelled a reservation I had with Dollar Rent-a-car when I discovered that they were owned by Hertz.
Curious how local and state governments can face “fiscal chaos” while debt issues by the federal govt. is highly desirable. People say governments run deficits during economic downturns (which is true) but in the US local and state spending is more pro-cyclical.
There is no "planned obsolescence" from Apple, and btw, that phrase is not capitalized in English.

There is a popular myth among the lazy-minded about this, but the fact is that Apple's hardware lasts a lot longer, and is intentionally supported for a lot longer, than competing hardware. This is true for Macs as well as iOS devices. If Apple is "planning" for anything, it's for their stuff to last a lot longer than others' stuff, not the opposite.
That’s a different sentence from “most companies don't really care about no. of cycles”
Thta's an interesting point, and something I thought a lot about while I was doing this.

Basically, this simulator just cares about the physics of it, but not resources (Fuel, oxygen, etc).

I did it exactly that way, first rotation then translation. The 2nd fail it took me so long that in the 3rd (and successful) run I just hit the metal after getting the rotation correctly.

Side note, it's much easier to get the rotation right first and then moving the ship.

It was fun, thought.
but why? it is being used by the whole world, not just people from US.

I don't remember popular soft's pages being shut down due to something happening in e.g HK.
Thanks for posting the link to the bigger list of books. I just love this stuff. I remember some of these from my childhood and my father's collection. +1 for posting this!
Mystery Anomaly Weakens Earth's Magnetic Field
Round of applause to the people behind this gesture.
Every time I check out BBC, DW, France 24, or any other European world news service, America is almost always first to be discussed. What Trump says, shootings, demonstrations, etc. It's all domestic affairs, but covered as though it's world news. Why would someone in Bavaria care so much about a shooting in Flint, Michigan? What about shootings in other countries? The horrors in Africa? Barely covered. No one cares.

So that's why this is not criticism, but some kind of competitive snickering. Europeans seem to need to feel better about themselves when comparing about Americans. Americans, on the other hand, rightfully don't care about what goes on overall in Europe.
None of what you said is actually true; Section 230 does not in any way require neutrality in order to gain its protections. The law is very clear about this, and the courts have been very clear about this.

Heck, we’ve been over this before on HN multiple times this past week; 230 does not require neutrality.
You'll pay it.
Social skills in a career context are not just getting along well in the office and being able to make small talk in the snack room. It's about creating a strong and deep network, and as an engineer, being able to interface effectively with business and other stakeholders on a social level. It's also about seeking out, recruiting, and fostering new talent, moreso at growing companies. I work at a unicorn tech company and very few engineers meet these criteria.
Not to mention that cobalt is mined by children and slaves:

https://www.ft.com/content/c6909812-9ce4-11e9-9c06-a4640c9fe...
Dude, your comments have turned into frantic rantings. Step away, take a breath. OP is making nuanced points. You're resorting to outlandish hyperbole.

Take a break from the internet.
I don't know how to say this without sounding aggy, sorry.

If you don't see the value, don't use it. Not every product is for everyone. It's entirely possible that for you there is no value in Facebook use. It has a low value for me (excluding WhatsApp).

I use it only because I think its zero cost/risk. I'm very unlikely to fall for phishing scams and no useful (not already public) information about me is on there.

To me this is one of the big frustrations of the article: Facebook is safe for some and unsafe for others, it's useful for some and not for others, it's "worth it" for some and not for others...
The alternative is to make the laptops bulkier, heavier and less energy efficient for the tiny number of people who want to upgrade their RAM.

It's not as trivial as people think to switch to removable RAM. See e.g. this informative reddit comment:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2dyuxa/can_any_engin...

The rest of the thread is also worth a read.
> "I disagree with what you say, but will defend your right to say it"

I'm not sure somebody's "right to say [something]" is directly equivalent to being able to tweet something on a privately owned platform.
It's hard to mislabel "glorification of violence" given the militar culture in the US: just look of all the military propaganda more or less hidden into mainstream media (movies, tv series etc)
There they have the sexy underwear in Utah.

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

I used to live in the US, but I'm back home in Germany. I have 0 interest in going back.
Right, I can understand why someone might wish to work part time even if they didn't really need the money, but I don't see myself working full time beyond the point where I am fully financially independent from needing to.
And they started mass-murdering people in 1939. The news were full of it.
People I know in real life use the word "hacker" for "generates crappy code that holds together via duck tape basically".
Cities can’t print money
Nice! I imagine with the advances in ML it would be possible to do really impressive things. I hope you or someone else takes this up.

Also, this is really a reason to love Hacker News. Sometimes I question why I spend so much time here, this is not one of those times :)
Probably too many people went for base + 16gb. There's not too big of a difference between base 8th gen and upgraded 10th gen except for graphics.
Louis Rossmann does, but he has a bit of a vendetta against Apple. It requires a very steady hand and a lot of patience.
Just curious, what is the script/SQL to wipe the DB?
I feel like this is difficult to quantify. For some people, especially top-tier talent, this is probably true. But I don't think it is necessarily the case for everyone.

I started my profession programming career at 18, but went back for a CS degree at around 30. I did notice a difference in the quality of job offers that I received since getting a degree. Prior to my degree, I only ever received job offers from smaller places. Immediately after receiving my diploma, I managed to get a really well paying job at one of the largest tech companies in my city.

There's no way of knowing how much of an influence my degree had on this, but I suspect it was critical. This particular company hired people without college degrees. All of my subsequent jobs have been with companies would be out of reach for me without a degree.

Times are definitely changing, especially with the rise of bootcamps. And my anecdotes can't be extrapolated to everyone, but I do think there is still value in technical degrees from a university, even for CS.
Sure, but a homeless tent camp is a far cry from high-density housing. How long do the locals have to deal with a tent camp and all the associated problems? If you don't understand why spending $15.5m to actively make the lives worse of the locals and not really solve the problem--then I think you're missing why SF has budget problems.

>For some nearby residents, the decision was met with dismay and frustration and a feeling of futility after they had spent weeks pleading with Preston’s office to find an alternative, like parking lots owned by the school district or City College and even Recreation and Park Department property.

>“There are all of these large parking lots not being used that would be so much better than plopping this down in the middle of a residential area — an area we’ve struggled for decades to get control of on this end of Haight Street,” said Ted Loewenberg, president of the Haight-Ashbury Improvement Association.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-to-open-sanct...
IIRC a Falcon heavy in expendable mode (i.e., no booster recovery/landing) could theoretically get the job done. Apparently there's little desire from NASA to do that right now though. SpaceX is putting all their deep space efforts into Starship.
I can't count the number of times we've heard this happening. Even Facebook's board members have been said to object to Zuckerberg's leadership.

The end result has been (and will be) nothing. Zuckerberg doesn't care about feedback from anyone. Any public display of personal growth seems to be PR and is immediately contradicted by his actions.
Pretty hilarious, 32gb sodimms are only 150 GBP in the UK, Apple charging 200 for 16. Similarly, 2TB disk for 800 GBP, open market it's 219.

Some PC laptop vendor could do a whole TV campaign based around the idea of turtle-necked folk setting fire to money and smiling, because it makes them feel better, and that's really all that matters[.. right?]
From what I have read NASA has opted for the 4 seat version only, and then placed cargo under them where the other 3 seats would be. SpaceX has designed the capsule to carry 7 if you want an all passenger config but it will need to be heading to a destination fairly quickly as it doesn't leave much space left over. That said, even at 7 it looks like it would still be roomier than a Soyuz at 3 people.
> It’s a service for excluding compromised passwords from use.

How does this work?

2 cases:

1. I know password P is compromised. I check it in HIBP. If compromised, great, but I already know that. If not, well, too bad. I still can't use it because I know it's compromised. - decision doesn't depend on the result of HIBP.

2. I don't know if P is compromised. I check it in HIBP. If compromised, I don't use P. If not, I don't use P because I already put P in a text box connected to the internet. - decision doesn't depend on the result of HIBP.

Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware of the value of HIBP. I'm just arguing about this particular use case.
Yep. Those files are still there, but the mystery is gone. Like when you figure out your parents are regular people, too.
This is nuts. Why not send the guy a $10-50K check (or to a nonprofit of his choosing) as a bounty/thank-you/we-love-open-spource-PR thing?

It would be one thing if there were trying to to hide it with closed source, but this was stupidly evil out in the open.
Dam I was 20ish and doing now what I did back then I might well stay in mech eng.

I did the specialised mech eng A1 BTEC in the UK that had been set up to service speclised industries - all but of my class worked in bleeding edge RnD.

I did identify in one class that a lump of wreckage was an A4 fuel pump (that is the Agerat 4 aka the V2)
I've never seen LPDDR3 sold retail, how does it work?
> So would a site like Reddit selectively choosing what speech to report to the government create a chilling effect on the First Amendment, given that they may report speech that isn't illegal but still results in an investigation and maybe even court fight

That's not how the system we were discussing works. You are supposed to self-report your social media accounts, and then the government looks into those social media accounts. The platform is never asked to report anything at all.

Or are you describing an entirely different scenario, in which a site like Reddit voluntarily reports on its users (selectively or not)? In which case I don't see how that creates a chilling effect of speech more than anyone else. Any motivated individual can check your social media accounts and report anything they see to the police if it's illegal or suspicious. And they can choose to do this as selectively as they want.
How to sound your best on calls from home
Shipping maybe. If sodium cells are safer than lithium then they can be shipped by airplane which would benefit a lot from reduced weight.
https://archive.vn/qYw8d
One niche use that I know of that lives on to this day for germanium diodes is in analog guitar effects.

The reason is twofold: germanium diodes generally have a softer turn-on than silicon diodes, and they have a lower forward voltage drop than silicon diodes.

This makes them useful in audio applications for clipping circuits (more sensitive and warmer sounding distortion), but also in simple one-diode envelope-detector circuits. One rather famous guitar compressor effect from the 1970s (the 'Orange Squeezer') used a germanium diode as an envelope-detector in this manner.
A tradeoff I'll take every time.
This is why it makes more sense to say "3.3x vs 6.6x more expensive". It's better aligned with how people actually think.
I'd assumed that the main difference between the capitalised version and uncapitalised version was being potentially able to trademark the former, so you could get the distinction in free-ness that way. I'm not aware of the FSF actually trademarking the term though, so I could well be wrong on that point.
https://github.com/pimlie/ubuntu-mainline-kernel.sh is a decent script that wraps managing updates and installs.
I think it's just that most professionals have given up expecting to be able to change their RAM.
Does this make me a hacker?

Donald Knuth was giving a presentation to celebrate someones birthday by debugging his old FORTRAN code. He was having trouble giving it since his PDF of his presentation was autoforwarding using Adobe Acrobat. I figured out that Preview would avoid this outcome. I think this is the largest contribution I will have to Computer Science.
If SpaceX doesn't hire him, then Space Force surely has an opening!
That's interesting. Not sure I agree -- being into computers as a kid is what got me into programming. But there's probably more than one way to do it.
> searching (and registering) social media

.. says someone from an anonymous account.
Freshlytics - https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics

* Cookies are not used

* Personally identifiable information (PII) is not collected

* See the pageview in different dimensions like page urls, referrers, browsers etc

* Supports multiple projects

* Supports RBAC

Screenshots - https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics/blob/master/docs/sc...
People misunderstand that quote as much as people misunderstand the concept of freedom of speech.

Freedom of speech means that the police can't raid your house for what you think or say or a judge cannot rule against you for what you think or say.

But freedom of speech doesn't mean that other people are forced to either listen to you or provide with their own private means (like content hosting or bandwidth) for you to express your ideas.
I've created an iOS Shortcut to do this:

https://routinehub.co/shortcut/5451
"Temporarily" according to who? And still $15.5m and $XXm still to be spent on the new development, and for now it's a massive tent camp---this is why SF has budget problems is my point. They're squandering the resources they have and not even solving the problems, they're actually making it worse in most cases. Tents tripled in the city in the last few months: https://abc7news.com/homeless-coronavirus-san-francisco-hous... SF could house these people instead of leaving them in tents somewhere else, but we have this ridiculous idea we have to house them in the most expensive city in the country where there's no new supply. We're spending nearly $1m per affordable housing unit.. who is paying for this? It's doomed to fail.
I’m still using my non-upgradable base model 2013 Macbook Pro, while I don’t know anyone still using a 7 year old Windows/Linux laptop, even an upgraded one. It’s fallen on a cement floor multiple times and has had no damage from that. Repairability doesn’t matter if it doesn’t break in the first place, and there’s certainly been no problems with obsolescence, planned or otherwise.
LPDDR3 is not sold on dimms.
The fact that it's only a temporary homeless tent camp doesn't do a whole lot to make the situation better. I think you're not recognizing how absurd this sounds to outsiders; most people would not live in a city that formally sanctioned tent camps in residential neighborhoods.
I guess choosing when or how a program deallocates is important in a language that's close to the metal.

Rust tries to be zero cost while providing abstractions that make it seemingly a high level language but ultimately things like this show that it's not exactly zero cost because abstractions can incur hidden penalties. There needs to be some internal syntax that allows a rust user to explicitly control deallocation when needed.

If I started reading code where people would randomly move a value into another thread and essentially do nothing I would be extremely confused. Any language that begins to rely on "trick" or "hacks" as standard patterns exposes a design flaw.

Maybe if rust provided special syntax that a function can be decorated with so that it does deallocation in another thread automatically? Or maybe an internal function called drop_async...? This would make this pattern an explicit part of the language rather than a strange hack/trick.
SF problems come from its people and wild economic and cultural swings. Government would love to have more influence, but it really doesn't.

The McDonalds you refer to was a huge problem for a long time and right now the only argument is about exactly how big an apartment building to put there.
Even today, in 2020, I'm amazed at how good the music sounds in those 80s and 90s arcade games that used FM chips like the YM2151. Marble Madness, 720, Pack Rat in particular. Not just a testament to FM synthesis, but to the composers and sound programmers of the day!
Possibly, but the knowledge that the Nazis were engaging in mass murder has been readily available once they declared war on the rest of the Europe and went through with it. You didn't have to wait until discovering some camps to change your notions of them.