skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a better article than the typical personality piece or character assassination, but the thread here shows the problem with these things: there just isn't that much to discuss. Once a public figure or celebrity has grown beyond a certain size—I don't know what the threshold is, but it's lower than 1 Zuckerberg—they become a generic theme, and people mostly just repeat their pre-existing feelings about them, as well as practicing the social rituals that humans do on such occasions.

Public figures of this sort become cartoon characters [1]. The way we relate to them reminds me of how the Greeks used to talk about their gods, and at times also of the feces-hurling behavior in other primates. I don't mean that dismissively, I mean it almost literally (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23406290). These discussions are fascinating because they're so repetitive and so consistent. But their content is not interesting, because they're not about content. They're deep social behavior.

It's always been a principle on HN to emphasize content over personalities [2], and that principle has served well over the years. I think I've learned something about why: it's because intellectual curiosity and social curiosity are different things. Social curiosity is what lies behind gossip, fascination with celebrities, and so on—the lives of others, if it's ok to adapt that phrase. Intellectual curiosity has to do with expanding one's view of the world. Both are deeply human, but HN is a site specifically for intellectual curiosity. That explains why articles and threads like this invariably miss the bullseye here.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... - I recalled using this phrase further back, too, and found it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6429252 - 7 years ago, and also about Zuckerberg.

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Ask HN: Is Twitter Down or Slow?
I used a few site to check if it is down but apparently it isn't. It seems to be non stop loading with a blank screen.
You're right. It was never designed as a mobile OS with a soft keyboard. Hell, it's 2020 and rotating the device still doesn't work as it should.
If you mute yourself, everyone else can see you muted. But statuses are on one of our upcoming sprints.
I think the timeline entry in Wikipedia is misleading. If you look at the referenced ZDNet article, it has this:

"We're very happy that they're taking on the points in the 'Public Money, Public Code' campaign we started two and a half years ago," Alex Sander, EU public policy manager at the Berlin-based Free Software Foundation Europe, tells ZDNet. But it's also important to note that this is just a statement in a coalition agreement outlining future plans, he says.

"Nothing will change from one day to the next, and we wouldn't expect it to," Sander continued, noting that the city would also be waiting for ongoing software contracts to expire. "But the next time there is a new contract, we believe it should involve free software."

Any such step-by-step transition can be expected to take years. But it is also possible that Munich will be able to move faster than most because they are not starting from zero, Sander noted.
IMO, that doesn't make a good trade off. The identity problem space is already super complicated due to ITP while the risk is very high. If you make mistakes, you will accidentally leak personal information to others while the benefits... are pretty minimal, probably having 1~2% more revenue from those people with dual accounts. Given that joining signed-in and signed-out identity is explicitly prohibited as a condition of Double Click acquisition, I doubt if there's any incentive to do this kind of joining for Google.
For individual users who don't mind a small watermark on the screen ,the inability to change their desktop background, or the inability to join the windows insider program, it effectively is free. Granted, this doesn't apply to orgs.

But yeah I don't see why they still charge for Home Edition licences. Surely the focus should be on keeping people using Windows. It probably makes sense in the short term to charge but more and more people are either moving away from Windows or using unlicensed installs.
Both times were Munich though.
Have you tried the “HD Rumble” feature of Nintendo Switch games? It’s about on the same level as the “Taptic Engine”, but it’s been made use of for a far-larger variety of use-cases, so it’s helpful to get a real sense of what the possibilities are of that level of tech.
Hire outside investigators, appoint/deputize independent lawyers to be special prosecutors, etc.

Most states of cities with police problems have very strong civil rights laws (often stronger than federal protections) -- they have the legal tools to make real change happen.

They don't need the DOJ to fix their problems. Relying on the DOJ makes sense if the local government is supportive of the bad policing -- like back in the civil rights/segregation era. Some states would not comply so the feds had to make things happen. You don't have that situation today.
> ...of people more interested in contradicting Trump than being logical...

Precisely the way trump himself behaves, but you don't point that out.
Hi, I'm the author of the post. Thanks for reading and for the honest criticism.

Do you agree that convincing more people in the tech industry to genuinely understand the inequality that exists, and the value of inclusive practices, is a prerequisite to achieving the impactful policies you cited? How do we get laws enacted or create a successful tech union while the white and male majorities in tech continue to feel indifferent or only passively supportive of these policies?

The intent of my post is to persuade people like myself to care about social justice, with a specific emphasis on the tech industry, in order to get more people acting towards substantive change. Over and over again, I've seen presentations, seminars and studies fail to convince people that diversity and inclusion are issues employees everywhere needs to be personally invested in. Instead of these generic and emotionally distant approaches, I argue that we should look to real-life examples in our own workplaces.
While your statement about the 11 most populous states is correct mathematically, it isn't politically. That group contains states that are quite politically diverse: from Georgia to California.

There is no way that a Presidential candidate would win those 11 and lose the other 39.
I'm already at the half century mark, and while I do go through my older photos occasionally, I am still happiest when looking at photos of our dogs.

Who knows if that will change in 20 or 30 years.
Ahh... I thought this was the first ever instance.

So Munich goes open source -> Hamburg gets inspired

and BAM - 14 years later it follows suit.
>We shouldn't over-punish honest mistakes when we value speed over accuracy

Looking at some of the specifics, these don't look like "honest" mistakes, and I'm doubting any integrity on the part of the peer reviewers and the Lancet too with how blatantly false some of their data are. It doesn't even pass the smell test:

https://mobile.twitter.com/JamesTodaroMD/status/126610886125...
It's definitely doable. Dolby Axon (which shut down a few years ago) had positional voice chat.
> A more general question: If I hire a consultancy company to build something for me, would I normally be able to directly hire the employees who did the work?

This is common in the enterprise software world, from what I've seen.
>He’s a privileged rich white kid on the spectrum

Trump or Zuckerberg?
It usually means they hacked in some hardware support for that one particular kernel but didn't upstream it. This is how hardware companies seem to prefer to operate. Release a product (including the drivers) and then forget about it. Maintenance is a drag and getting patches accepted upstream is too much work, plus they might come back to you and ask you to fix stuff in your code later, which isn't in the budget.

Windows bends over backwards to try to support old code. If you have something with Vista drivers there's a decent chance you can get it working in Windows 10, unless they were 32 bit only drivers. Even if you supply the source code (gasp shock! Unheard of!) you still end up chasing Kernel ABI changes from time to time.

For an example, I have an old Canon LiDE 35 scanner that I use from time to time. On Linux it just works as part of the huge SANE bundle. On Windows all I have are ancient 32 bit drivers that don't work on Windows 10, but if you download the Windows 7 x64 drivers for the LiDE 60 and hack some strings you can get it to work. A complete reversal in the amount of technical wizardry necessary to get it working over the course of about 10 years.
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There is an older approximation of that, in Ferret (https://ferret-lang.org/ ), which compiles a dialect of Clojure to c++, and can be used in embedded (IIRC it does have some pretty hefty limitations, but it's very cool nonetheless).
Sugestion: volume normalization, compression (as in audio effect, not as in zip). A lot of people have shitty mics or change their distance.
Technically you could also lay out new components and copper trace on an actual brick, too.

I've always understood it to mean 'broken beyond software or high-level firmware repair'. i.e. if not actually a blown component, something needs to be reflashed which has an inaccessible JTAG header or something, rather than something 'higher level' like recovery images over ADB & USB.
Agree on the overall argument, but your assumption that Zuck is a “liberal” seems, on the face of it, pretty unfounded. He financed Republicans and effectively allowed Trump free reign on his platform, over and over.
Nice, the upside of posting a comment with >10 upvotes (not a common occurence in my case) is that:

1. you end up getting more responses

2. more responses === a higher probability of seeing gems like this wikipedia wormhole I'm about to get sucked into:) I had no idea about the horsemen/chans or that May identified the reason behind the alpha particle problem. Cheers.
How to Do Polyglot Right
Hetzner Cloud is in Germany.
Glad to see this is still in development
Where is gen220 rewriting Python history?

Rust is a pretty obscure language now in pretty much the same way that Python was an obscure language then.

Of course the world of programmers was smaller in the 1990s. But if your baseline is the entire world, then probably every programming language outside of Basic, C/C++, and Pascal was obscure in the 1990s. Just like Rust is now.

It feels very much like you have shifted baselines to determine what "obscure" means.

From my view, Python's popularity took off around 2000. That's when I no longer had to tell people what Python was, and when people in my field (cheminformatics) started shifting new code development from Perl to Python. It's also about when I co-founded the Biopython project for bioinformatics. And SWIG in the mid-1990s included Python support because Python was being used to steer supercomputing calculations at LANL.

So your statement that Python's popularity and use in science in general started only in 2010 sounds like revisionism which distorts the actual history with an artificial baseline.

You wrote "with a few web frameworks which were not that popular".

Ummm.... what? Zope was quite popular. The 2001 Python conference had its own Zope track, and the 2002 conferences felt like it was 50% Zope programmers.

Quoting its Wikipedia entry, "Zope has been called a Python killer app, an application that helped put Python in the spotlight". One of the citations is from 2000, at https://web.archive.org/web/20000302033606/http://www.byte.c... , with "there's no killer app that leads people to Perl in the same way that Zope leads people to Python."
That's your opinion and an old-school one at that. The vast majority of customers do not want something that basic.
> really great cameras are quite cheap

For somebody like me who can't remember what an f-stop is, what are a couple of suggestions?

Maybe I should take a photography class one of these days...
> Anti-poaching clauses are basically unenforceable.

Not as part of a contract for work, otherwise, the entire contract labor market that involves specific payment for customers hiring workers off of the contact would die as customers would just ignore the “unenforceable” restrictions and hire desired employees without the contracted payment to the intermediary firm.

Standalone anti-poaching agreements between competing firms are generally unenforceable (and also potentially outright illegal and actionable.)
> Turns out it's not about just any people having guns

Yes, apparently the likelihood of someone actually using the gun factors into their fear of guns. They aren't afraid of the mere idea of a gun, they are afraid of being shot by a gun. Not all people who carry guns are equally as likely to shoot you.
Why do a runoff, if you can just take everyone's preferences into account on the first vote? IRV and related systems have serious problems, most of which arise because they ignore some of people's preferences. Any system that needs a runoff is in some ways ignoring information it could have used the first time around.
In laymen's terms, it's like wearing a black ski mask in a crowded shopping mall.
This is what gets you Brexit. The entire future of a country changed on a 50-49 vote that 6 months later, would probably go at least 52-47 the other way.
I'm not sure who exactly you think is arguing that point.
Yes, it's NewTek. Specifically you're looking for this page: https://ndi.tv/tools/#download-tools
So basically, none of these cases have anything to do with arrests for violent crimes, like I said.

I did not, however, say any of the other things you are attributing to me.
>Seems the right thing to do is ignore US sanctions when seeing unjust actions.

Just like with breaking any laws, including those you deem to be "unjust", don't be surprised when you get hit with very expected legal consequences for doing so.
Ask HN: Should I convince my friend to exit MLM business?
The friend of mine has approached me and proposed to join MLM (Multi-level marketing) business. To add some context - my friend is an engineering manager in Fortune 500 company with a background in data science. The business has no sign of financial pyramid and sounds like a legit MLM scheme.

That expressed my interest in Network marketing organization and I went through this paper from Kellogg school
https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/coughlan/htm/personalpage_files/Papers/Coughlan%20Grayson%20IJRM%201998%20article.pdf

IMO such business are totally fine if you enjoy routine job. Seems like the friend was inspired by some fancy youtube or insta blogger. But I feel that he underestimate the high returns of such business as most of MLM are focus on the shiny side only. The only advantage of such business is experience in retail sales that can be useful for further venture.

So, should I try to convince him to exit this MLM business and how can I reinforce my arguments?
I'm not saying that I want library/module integration; I want nix to be able to build a package by creating a working directory with a set of input directories and an output directory, and then running an arbitrary script to convert the inputs into the output.
Also frustrating considering that Republicans set their asking price at unalloyed, unmitigated evil, and allow themselves to be haggled down to merely abhorrent. Then Democrats give it to them. It's like trying to sell a banana for $100000 and agreeing to settle for $1000, then crying "but I already gave up 99% of what I wanted!" in order to justify taking $999 profit on a $1 fruit.

I would respect Democrats more if they had a "F.U. moment" and did something like arresting and imprisoning executive employees under the capitol building for contempt of Congress, for failure to produce documents necessary for oversight, that are required by law to be furnished on demand.

In the 2015 parlance of Back to the Future Part 2, they "got no scrote".
My 2006 honda civic navigation had a good mix of touch and physical buttons, that is almost no-look. What I find funny though is that since it's a resistive touch and has a beep for every button (after a lag of course), i get "haptic feedback"
> now I can tell a lot about you and could guess 100% correctly about any of you derivative political viewpoints.

Well go ahead and guess then, and let's see how accurate you are.
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NewTek does NDI for Mac. The tools and SDK are available for Mac.

https://ndi.tv/tools/

The OBS NDI plugin is not part of OBS proper, but available separately:

https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi/releases
That is not a strict priority list. It is not unheard of to burn some money on celebrations and decorations, while cutting budgets in the essentials.

The appropriate question to ask is: at which size can you afford a competent security team in-house for what you would pay for a secure cloud offering. I would actually love to know the answer to that question.
I meant to say D seems unnecessary
Perl is a write once language for me.

In that I write it once and 20 years later it still works even though I upgraded the compiler many times.
How can I write a simple device driver using dumb buffers? I have searched far and wide but I can't find anything. I'm forced to write a framebuffer driver. Once you dip into DRI shit get's insanely complex quick.
Perception is mostly shaped by frequency. It doesn't matter that much what most people of the minority do. It matters what the others see.

To give you an example: if you have little personal contact to a specific minority, and over 50% of the people of that minority you see on TV are either criminals on local news, or musicians and actors playing gangsters, everyone who doesn't have a lot of contact with them in real life is getting scared every time they see someone who fits the profile.

It's up to the majority to give the minorities opportunities to present themselves in the best light, but you can't force someone to be not racist. Even those who don't want to be have an unconscious bias. You need frequent positive impressions of that minority to get a good overall impression and avoid that bias.

By the way, this is not limited to race, but also for example applies to people with tattoos. If all tattooed people you see are criminals, you are scared by tattooed people as well. It works with every property of people that's easily visible.
Those automakers did not have competitive touch interfaces.

And there's still room on the steering wheel for knobs for the most common controls, and voice control is often available.
Yes. Is not as easy you chose your location and language and done. I remember me having to download,install and configure stuff to get spellchecking working in Firefox and Open Office. Also 10 years back to connect to internet I had to use a PPP application, this was not included by default in Ubuntu but the localized spin included this, the spellcheckingt stuff and other stuff.

Also if your country does not need to follow the laws about the codecs you can include them and not have your users have to install them.
This is the issue with front-page lies and 9th page retractions.
We will never automate "basic needs" unless we automate medicine.

We'll never automate medicine because everyone wants to live even longer.
V1 was articles of confederation and it was pretty terrible.
Thx. Makes Perfect Sense.
While being class based does make Squeak's Morphic a bit more awkward than Self's, the big difference is that it is a hybrid system that can run older MVC (Model View Controller) applications with little or no modification. That means that there are two different ways of doing most things and someone looking for examples to copy might run across the MVC version instead of the "proper" Morphic version.
I'll just share an anecdotal experience:

Earlier this year (before COVID), I interviewed with Microsoft, as they were looking for people with security clearances to work on Azure services. I apparently passed at least one of the four interviews, as they made me an offer. However... the offer contained minimal details on what I would be working on or doing, just a vague description that it was an Azure infrastructure service team. The recruiter himself didn't have any information to answer my questions. If I were just coming out of college, I'd be fine with that level of unknown, but as someone with about ten years of experience and who knows what he likes to work on, I wasn't going to take the risk of ending up on a miserably boring project (again).
Correct. MS SQL Server is based on the Sybase 4.2 release. System 10 was 3 releases later (4.8 & 4.9 added MP and internationalization support respectively).
I think this kinda bends the meaning of the argument a bit.

To put it differently, if we have to go with outsourcing, China was a mistake and we should redirect as much of what was offshored as possible to Mexico.

Obviously the billionaire class needs to pay for what has been done. I'm absolutely not against that.
This has been one of the chief complaints for GDPR, right? While GDPR provides consumer data protection, it also creates regulatory and compliance barriers for new competition entering those markets, with heavy penalties.
What did they not get about your comment ?
Yes! Exit the ponzi scheme
"I had to give some serious looking in order to find a DIN2 radio that had CarPlay and a physical on/off/volume control"

Share.. Please! I still haven't found any.

I have 2004 wrx with 2din slot but haven't found anything with ergonomics of the manufacturer old setup. I have so much room, yet all I can find is huge screens with tiny or no buttons... :(
So I'd have this running and then anyone from work can just start talking to me and I'd hear it straight away?

That sounds like a nightmare to be honest. How will you ever reach any level of concentration this way? Even the thought that someone could just start talking to you would probably ruin your chances at getting in any sort of flow.

Also, it feels like only a small step away from a form of work surveillance. "Where were you? I was talking to you on Squawk".

Unless my assumptions of what this is are completely wrong. There isn't much to go on on the page.
> I'm not really familiar with 5G technology, but I have an idea that the stations had less range than 4G although they are faster. If that were the case maybe there would be other better ways to give good network to the rural environment

No, that's not correct.

Most countries are looking at 5G on three separate bands. Usually something in the 700MHz area (for use in rural areas, similar range to the longest-range LTE), something in the 2.5GHz area (for use in urban areas, similar range to current shorter range LTE), and ~30GHz (very short range, dense urban areas only).
Of course you can. If it has any form of display, it can display customized ads. Some radio stations manage to put ads on the 14-segment display that is supposed to show the station name and/or frequency.

And if it doesn't, there is always room for a sticker. Buy a new laptop and you are going to see half a dozen ads before you even turn it on: on the box, on leaflets inside the box, and in the form of stickers,... It seems that only Apple doesn't play that game, but the privilege is expensive.
Trad clarinet isn't terribly difficult compared to post-bebop jazz. Pee Wee Russell and Benny Goodman were probably the best at it in the 60s. I don't think I have any post-1930s Mezzrow recordings to make an assessment.
Ghosts'n Goblins'n Crocodiles
Sure is a lot of smoke. Lots. Don't you think some one should look in to this all a little before we decide "nothing to see here"?
This thread is about Hamburg.