skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What. Part. Of. You. Are. Not. Entitled. To. A. Platform. Do. So. Many. People. Have. A. Problem. With. Understanding.

Yeah. I get it. Used to be there.

The part where some companies get Section 230 protection. I mean, that's just a political debate away from death. Get it?

> The idea that "conservative" voices are being censored when the largest news station on the planet is a mouthpiece for "conservatives" and the 9 out 10 of the most shared articles on Facebook come from "conservative" sources is the most laughable argument.

Yes.

> I seriously can not wrap my head around any argument being made about "free speech" and platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

Platforms.

> We learned forever ago from that allowing forums to go unmoderated leads to the absolute worst people taking over that forum.

Sure. So why not jut enforce politically neutral moderation? Why is that so hard?!

You get the point, I hope. The argument that "politically neutral moderation" is impossible needs to be made. Not to people who were on BBSes, but to people who grew up on FB.

I used to have your view. The debate has... moved on. There's a really damn good point about the role that networks and platforms play in social discourse, which I think can't just be "you don't understand the internet!"'d away.
Rwanda is roughly 6.5 million acres in size. Half of its roughly 200MW of total generating capacity comes from hydro and solar, the other half coming from natural gas and biomass thermal generation. To replace existing thermal generation would be ~12k acres of solar, and another ~12k acres for every additional 100MW in solar generating capacity desired (or inter connectors to other grids in the region). I also assume that rooftops are available for solar.
I think the Jobs Iphone demo might be that.
The flip side is when 4Chan, (or Twitter, or Reddit) identifies you, it's not always correct. And that doesn't seem to matter to the angry mobs.

See: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/06/what-its-like-to-get...
Depends on the year
History and the Three Museums
No one on this thread is talking about the simplest explanation: that unseen entities were communicating with this woman. Of course this explanation flies in the face of scientific naturalism. But it’s good to question beliefs based on new evidence. Research by Ian Stevenson and Dean Radin is compelling in pointing to a pan psychic reality.
Stylish Design Coffee Table Making from Old Pallet Boards – Wise Crafts
John Bolton: The Scandal of Trump’s China Policy (WSJ)
Epic Games and Match Group Join Spotify in Protesting Apple’s App Store Fees
This presents itself as a treatise, but it very much is not. It totally ignores critical aspects that should influence monitor choice.

In decreasing importance (imo):

- cost

- contrast ratio / black level

- all aspects related to temporal feel that aren’t refresh rate (response/decay time, sample and hold, backlight strobing, etc.)

- color gamut

- color precision (nobody wants banding from 6 bpc + FRC)

You can’t honestly make recommendations to people for $1000 monitors without even addressing these points, even if you don’t think they’re important for your workflow. It is very poor form.
You are still conflating display size with pixel density, so I’m not sure what you are arguing against. You talked about in other post about how you had to scale your displays because your OS didn’t support resolution independence, is that what you mean by tiny?
Interesting read! I'd love to read the next post, but at least Miniflux can't find any feed.

3eed, would you be open to adding an RSS feed?
Ask HN: Which paid newsletter are you subscribed to?
No Paywall: http://archive.is/xpjI8
If you dig very deep, you can also find an offer to come work at Snapchat. Most will never find it.
Too many reasons to write here, I already said our location was very car-optimized which alone is enough for me.
I've read several articles about this, from US, UK and French sources, and none of them mention alternatives like Jitsi. Is it just a lack of knowledge?

I've tried Zoom once, it was a disaster. I've tried Jitsi, it was much better. Moreover, Jitsi doesn't require any installation on the client side, and you can host your instance or join an existing one (you trust).
No, you're the xenophobe.

I'm concerned with there being a support issue, as well as a smaller user base also affecting support in the long term.
My trip was in 2014 and I concur with how clean and beautiful it is. In addition to the capital being an impressive city, another amazing opportunity awaiting you there is visiting mountain gorillas. I just uploaded a video of my experience a few days ago:

https://vimeo.com/stephenhuey/gorillas
Two things discovery (search) and dns (centralized). Not sure if they are both the same problem.
Assurance that you’re getting the right $5 device is tricky—when the factory has so many incentives to do otherwise.
> Twitter is a bubble

Yup.

So is Missouri's GOP.
Dark Crystal is another neat POC Shamir Secret Sharing tool, built by some folks involved in SSB[0] and Loomio [1]

https://darkcrystal.pw/

[0]: https://scuttlebutt.nz/
[1]: https://www.loomio.org/
Covid-19 Dataset on Google Sheets – Death toll by U.S. cities
On the topic of videos involving Brand and Engelbart, they make amusing cameos in the film by Ted Nelson, which I recently stumbled upon.

"Silicon Valley Story -- A Very Short Comedy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXlyMrv8_dQ

[note: brief NSFW moment from 2:10 to 2:25]
I'd love a monitor like that for off-grid, low power use. I'd probably also want a linux distro specifically tailored to an e-ink format.
500 Lines or Less is a great book in that genre.

https://github.com/aosabook/500lines/
Worked for Edison
You say backend, but the frontend also has tons of overlap. The first time I saw RingCentral was after much Zoom experience, and I was thoroughly confused (based on nothing but the frontend) by the similarity until reading up about it. As a one-time invitee rather than a frequent user, RC was absurdly identical to Zoom other than the title bar and icon.
They probably sell tons of information to law enforcement. That seems to be a lucrative revenue stream for information companies.
Get back to me in a year when your ops staff gets tired of 24x7 support for a cost center.
As reasonable as the Senator may be in that sense, he should maybe get away from the lobbyists for a while and really think about the country for once.

Every last child in the entire country is suffering for lack of ready access to reading and educational material over and above what was deemed a "reasonable baseline" before when to copy a book meant a paper printer had to be engaged. It seems to me the Internet Archive may be doing what Congress refuses to prioritize; namely reevaluation of the nature of copyright in a day and age where publishing can be essentially free, and where physical logistics come with inherent avoidable risk.

I'm all for copyright holders getting their due, but the abuse of the usual suspects does a rather good job of tainting the well of sympathy by making the gift of copyright protection a bit lopsided in comparison to the delay in the advancement of ideas and foundational material within the public domain it creates.

If Congress were smart, they'd realize what the IA is doing in performing this public service, and do something like set up a stipend for those who donate/license their copyright for the duration of the period of time the NEL is needed.

But the publishing industry doesn't want that. It wants to gatekeep and get it's cut.
It's half the price in Uganda!

Here's me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vhZ03OKKE
OO in Lua is the same as OO in classic JavaScript, just slightly more manual. In fact, in lots of ways Lua can be viewed as a cleaned up, simplified JS.
$.1 for KWhr not When, so $1200 electricity.

Good use of units makes it easy to spot and fix the mistake.
I'm aware, but I've never seen a shop I've consulted for or any of my employers use it. I've tried to get it in use a few times and ultimately it went no where because I would be the only programmer in a department with > 100 FTEs who would be able to work on it or maintain it unless some others took the time to learn it. It's been a non-starter as a result.

When I ask around, I don't hear about it in use locally (edit: that's actually not entirely true, Blizzard uses it and maybe some of the other local game shops, but I don't see it anywhere else locally). I met someone at a conference a year or two back who was using Kong. That's been it. Maybe I'm just missing it but I don't really see widespread use.
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Having exposure to high status schools in my own childhood, I agree 100% with your last sentence, that was one of the most important lessons I learned growing up, to completely ignore pedigree. I was in a well regarded school where pretty much everyone was an idiot. But they were born to successful people and most of them are now successful adults. Firm a proof as any that merit is either not the norm or completely doesn't exist.

Still, I think more of an effort should be made to improve US urban public schools. I don't know what the answer is. It's surely very complex. I am not a specialist.
Super curious about this. There must be some way that the loaner knows what to expect for the next year. If that's true is the loaner paying based on your expected revenue with the upside being that you might grow further?
I'd say they make it a priority to keep people from tampering with their code, and maybe maintaining the platform's integrity. They even ban people who use tweak on jailbroken iPhone/Android. I found these articles about avoid Snapchat detection a while ago, it's a cat and mouse game.

https://aeonlucid.com/Snapchat-detection-on-Android/

https://aeonlucid.com/Snapchat-detection-on-iOS/
> Somehow google manages to have a store without fully locking your out of alternatives. Their position certainly makes it so they can and do behave as a monopsony in ways but certainly not to the same extent as apple.

Arguably they accomplish that by bundling (i.e. the problem that Microsoft in trouble with Explorer). https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/19/17999366/google-eu-andro...

You have to pay $40 to be able to launch your phone with GMS (Play store, Maps, other 1p Google apps not part of AOSP) and where until recently it looks like waiving that fee if you also preinstalled Chrome as the default browser. That's literally the bullshit Intel & Microsoft did that got them in trouble as monopolies. Google & Apple have pointed to each other as reasons neither is a monopoly so that their BS practices don't get them into trouble. The EU has been taking a harder stance than the US. In general I think we should be banning these kinds of practices once the company size exceeds some point (revenue, # of customers, something). It doesn't matter if you're a monopoly. You're throwing your weight with dominance in once area to artificially improve your reach in another (i.e. the customer isn't getting to make that choice).
My car takes around 10 seconds(I think more im not sure) for the reverse camera to work after starting the engine.
Its annoying having to wait, thats for sure
Totally agree. I have wondered what exactly engineers at... Netflix, for example, do on a day to day basis. The product plays videos, right? Its played videos for...years. Their newer features are pretty clear overengineering efforts like "Smart downloads". Because they've run out of shit to do so badly that the app will literally just start downloading things on your behalf without you. Why is this at all necessary? What users asked for this? Its exactly the kind of thing someone who had nothing else to do would come up with.
This was an interesting blog series when they originally wrote it, in 2018.
A communication service should use an openly specified protocol allowing independent client and server implementations, otherwise it's hostile to internet freedom. I believe that we should not recommend and should avoid using a service that does not meet this requirement, no matter what features it offers, including E2EE.
That's the coolest thing I've seen this year.
I gave up using them when they switched from showing places to stay to showing (by default) all kinds of crap that I didn't care about.

I was a business user, with a business account and business credit card. Why am I being shown "experiences" as the default behavior?

In the end I was forced to quit due to my account being in some weird state that they STILL haven't fixed (I checked today, a year and a half later). All that happens when I log in is I see "We’re reviewing your info
Someone from our team will review your account and follow up with you soon at <email>"

This is after many years of bookings and absolutely zero disputes or complaints etc. Emailing them gets me nowhere - just no response at all.
Some 2020 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air Users Experiencing Issues with USB 2.0
I often use a mix of moonscript [0] and Lua, because the Lua that moonscript generates for classes takes away a heap of the overhead when dealing with a whole heap of stateful things that you expect to run across for game dev.

[0] https://moonscript.org/
Have you considered the possibility that the first two companies you've mentioned have just fooled you into thinking their product is complete by offering you a complete feeling experience? There's a difference between "this feels whole" and "there's nothing more to be done here". I would say those two companies have iceberg effects with their products -- the customer interacts with a very focused piece of it.
For web, try a 25-dollar or 5-year-old phone.
I really like listening to the worker talk about computers at 14:28. He conveyed much of the same thoughts we still have about computers and automation.
Other comments aside, this isn't even using the term "virtue signaling" correctly.

They're are plenty of things that people agree with in the abstract, but don't do enough to make a difference. Probably everyone agrees that the environment should be cleaner. If I agree with that, but "don't lift a finger" to make it better, how am a virtue signaling? It's the opposite.

"Virtue signaling" involves doing some token thing to get the kudos. Smugly saying you only use DDG for web searches. Putting a Tor sticker on your laptop. Etc.
I tried putting my 27" monitor vertical but I found I had to move my head to see the top and that was much less useful than multi column.
> Facebook has continuous challenges with content/abuse/moderation

Facebook does that manually with contractors.
Same question here! Currently I have a checklist of sites I check, then do dev work, then back to talking to users.
Approaching zero. These trends were around before 2016.
I don't list my LinkedIn profile on my resume, but I have one and it's under the name used on my resume. Every time I've applied for a job, LI shows n people from $place_I_applied_to has viewed your profile recently.

So people definitely use it, even if it isn't on your resume.
They did need them at one point. And the product was successful enough that nobody in management ever had to get around to cost cutting, in the cases of Netflix, Facebook, etc. But that doesn't mean engineers are doing anything important.
Prison labour is a billion-dollar industry, with uncertain returns for inmates

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2017/03/16/prison-la...
Under the hood the frequency is also handled as numbers (0/1), there is a way for users to change the type if desired from Boolean to X Times, but complications stem when they want to do the other way around.

Some of the main pain points it might introduced are into visualizing the historical data. When you've been saying yes & No, and suddenly you want to track count, you'd see bit of inconsistency on how the data is presented. This proves hinderance to further work on finding the patterns. Hence why..

The way it is structured now, tracker is a one immutable component of type & frequency and when one of it changes, its a whole new tracker. This would simplify the experience for the user down the line. Rest assured, if this seems to be bothering users much, I'm willing to see if it could be done the other way as well.
They reverted the terms and withdrew the changes.
Under normal circumstances, society gets pretty angry at arsonists irrespective of their political beliefs. Do you also feel bad for the guy who mailed CNN pipe bombs?
I will echo a comment I made in a different thread about the CIA hack.

Why does anybody assume they would be able to protect their systems even if it was their main priority?

The CIA works on cyber-weapons designed to surveil countries, disable infrastructure, and destabilize governments. How capable and well-funded should a person or country need to be to destroy an economy or destabilize a government by stealing the CIA's weapons? $1B, $10B, $1T? A team of 1,000, 10,000, 1,000,000 specialists?

I think most people would probably agree that $1B is a lower bound for nation-destroying capabilities. You could hire a team of 100s-1000s of offensive security specialists full-time for 10 years with a budget of $1B. Does anyone know of any system or organization in existence that would even be willing to claim they can stop of a team of 1000 dedicated offensive security specialists working full-time for 10 years with a $1B budget let alone put it in writing or have evidence to back up that claim? What is the highest you have heard? Is it even in the general ballpark? I have personally never talked to an organization willing to claim a number higher than $1M and willing to put their money where their mouth is.

If nobody is even willing to claim that they can provide an actual defense, let alone having the extraordinary evidence required to backup an extraordinary claim of $1B, why is there any reason to believe that the CIA would be able to protect themselves even if they prioritized the problem?
“But the world is wide and there is room for both of us to be wrong.”
Its Rails+Postgres on the backend & Vuejs (TS) on the frontend. Hosting is done through dokku on a Hetzner VPS cloud.
I mentioned Armin/Invecto since they are looking at T-cell responses to pathogens. Much of the prolonged antibiotic treatment is no longer common practice. It damages the GI, suppresses portions of the immune system and is in many cases bypassed by 2 resistant forms of Lyme (round body starvation form & biofilm colonies). Most of my testing has been through Igenex, which has a lot of experience with antibody testing that places like Quest screw up. The typical Western Blot for Borellia (Lyme) is not a frequent test for many of the labs and requires 5 - 7 IgM or IgG that won't form in the patient because their immune system is too suppressed to manifest all of them. For example, the outer protein of Lyme does not have to shift and result in another antibody presentation because the host immune system has not forced it to. The CDC spec deliberately ignores two specific antibody proteins OSP 31, 34 as do the common tests and instructs most labs not to reveal which antibodies the patient has. Therefore, that patient might have some, but not all of the "required" antibodies.

As I mentioned above, metals & mold toxins can generate a lot of inflammation in some people that manifest as "foggy brain", joint aches, etc. It takes time and diagnostic testing paired with treatment protocols. Some people cannot process Aluminum and Mercury forms out of their body without relying on Glutathione (limited detox pathways, start with HLA genetic SNPs).

It's a good thing most western medicine doctors never prescribe expensive pharmaceuticals long term ... oh wait ;-)
You’ve got something there. The last time I saw something, in tech, that felt “magical” was the first time I saw an iPhone. The intro video, from Jobs, is something I’ve watched several times over the years. It’s a masterpiece of marketing and storytelling.
I think a good way to put this is:

Saying 'stop saying "virtue signalling"'

is

virtue signalling
Without generics, sum types would have to be a built-in like maps and arrays.

With generics, discriminated unions can take on all sorts of user-defined shapes.
Aren’t those specific returns?
Seems like more of a pessimist's take. I know the company I work at[1], at least has an ingrained culture of security that permeates through the org and dictates software development practices and tech stack. It probably helps to be a startup, where smaller missteps would be a bigger deal than for an established player.

[1] https://www.commure.com/
It's 1978, not 1980.
I'm interested in why you feel that way about Netflix. I've been digging into their source code and it's a complicated beast, with flags such as `isGreekAndSafari`. Beyond that, they have to deal with all the random business rules that each country has around content. It's given me a big appreciation for what they do, which others might boil down to something that's simpler than it actually is ("it's just streaming video, come on").

Reminds me of how people treat web developers in comparison to "real developers". I think perhaps it's just human nature to downplay the work or job of others.

I don't disagree that some places might have too many engineers, but I also think you underestimate the complexities of running a product that operates in every corner of the globe. And wants to provide a damn good experience in every corner of the globe.

So it's insane to me that you think their problems are "done" or "solved". That's how you end up falling behind and becoming an outdated business. These companies are trying to be proactive, not reactive!
Hi. My extremely poor white brother in Appalachia told me today about his most recent encounter with a cop. The scenario was disturbingly similar to scenarios where traffic stops have ended with black people dead. My brother got cut slack, allowed to leave with his car out of compliance with state law. Advised by the cop to take back roads to avoid further scrutiny.

YOU might not see white privilege, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. If my brother had been black, in his words... “I HOPE I would have been treated the same way”. But he knew that’s a false hope. If my brother had been black, would he be just one more statistic to debate here?
High-Speed Signaling Drill-Down
Hope that plant gets built, but I mean just look at Bulgaria, where corruption is rampant. We haven't been able to complete the Belene Nuclear Power Plant for 30 years now.

Doubt the Rwandan plant will get built any time soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belene_Nuclear_Power_Plant
Bill Bar certainly doesn't strike me as a advocate for leniency in this situation
We had a blind installed over a window at the office because the apple users found it unbearable reflecting off their screens.
All of this is valid and I don't really disagree, but would add that a lot of these longer lived companies do seem to spend a lot of resources on projects that are nothing like the items you listed and do seem rather pointless.