skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A policy of funding a domestic trial of anything which anyone else is trying anywhere in the world wouldn't be crazy, actually. We're not trying to only make safe bets; the cost of not having a solution is 1000 deaths a day.
We can use nuclear ️ to lower carbon emissions.
Agreed and appreciate the feedback. Today is our official launch, we have a long way to go.

I'm not happy with the state of our data. We had the trade-off conversation about waiting to ship until we felt it "complete" and shipping now to get feedback and spread the message.

We have a bet that we aren't the only ones who are disturbed by what our mission addresses. We wanted to condense our mission down into an articulation of our take on the problem domain and try to spread it. This articulation is meant to cut to the core of the problems in an easy to follow way. Today is part litmus test of our mission and part litmus test of our articulation.

I've updated the homepage with our current strategy. But this is early and we are looking for help in cultivating that strategy.
Or, you know, just use nuclear.
Show HN: Stay in the loop without ever leaving your IDE
> Docker for example, I hate it, it serves no purpose beside wasting disk space and slowing down your machine.

Docker is a deployment tool and obviously needed by enterprises and I don't think anyone sane using it for their own localhost.

> BTRFS is a bugged imitation of ZFS.

You don't really have to use it though. ext works flawlessly.

> Wayland not only is bugged but even does less things than Xorg.

Check out this video from one of major X maintainer of the past:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
Curated user generated content and a publisher are very different and this needs to be distinguished. This has been mixed quite a lot in the past few weeks of events.

While it is theoretically possible to moderate to th point they are close to each-other, this is not the reality of any of the cases being discussed. Such draconian levels of moderation will kill any community that was not already a full echo chamber without diversity, and not in the "oh Facebook is an echo chamber" way but in a true, cult-like following fashion.

Affiliation vs Promotion vs Allow - Publishers have directly affiliated authors. Algorithms and manually curated sets within UGC are promotion. Most all other social postings are simply "allowing". These distinctions are important, and arguably each have different legislative implications.
Resilience is not about fixing something. Otherwise we wouldn’t have created the internet.
It's already in the name Single Page _App_. If you're not building an app, you probably aren't best served using an app framework.
Rush? Are you kidding? If anything our policymakers have been delayed, led around with blinders on, unawares to the issues arising from tech's influence on society, for a decade.

If you don't think that these social media tech companies have done something fundamentally changing to our society and political process, then you've got a head in the sand. And at some point, like corporate finance in elections, the situation could grow to where they cannot even control it any more, and are just pawns in a social media game.

I'm not saying that Washington policymakers will handle it right, and should go headlong into poorly thought out action. But the idea that we have been in a rush to do something too soon, and should wait and see some more to figure out what's happening -- that is a joke.
Do you specifically mean PowerPC and not the POWER ISA?

If not, there's at least https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt

And the most powerful POWER system you can buy would be something based on the POWER9 processor.
Net neutrality is itself a (soft) form of censorship, in that you're taking away a private party's ability to make pricing decisions on information transfer. That said, I find it much less objectionable than what e.g. Facebook and Google are doing - mostly it just has negative economic consequences.
Outrun – weekly step contest (iOS/UK only)
Outrun allows you to win actual real life money (transferred to your chosen account), by competing in weekly contests to get the most steps. We also reward the runner-ups with prizes for those who place 2nd to 10th. Your steps are tracked using your chosen tracking app; Apple’s Health app, FitBit or Garmin. And that’s it, simple as that.
Ok boomer!
wow that actually looks pretty clean
Depends on what was posted obviously.

If I'm just removing opinions I disagree with its obvious I'm exercising full control over the content and therefore assume full liability.
Can't have one without the other.
Next? They're trying to upstream it
Russian language had status of official regional language in Crimea by the law: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD...

I think protests and exodus were result of TV propaganda, amount of disinformation was tremendeus, though Crimeans probably got better life within richer Russia.
There was a big thread about this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23550215.

I'm not seeing SNI (significant new information [1]) in this submission, so I think we need to downweight this thread as a follow-up [2].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
> Curated user generated content and a publisher are very different

On the scale of facebook or twitter, not really. You have enough users that every conceivable opinion is going to show up on your platform, and by boosting or suppressing those opinions, you have basically exactly the same amount of power and influence as a traditional publisher.
Just light, what about the rest of the electromagnetic range of emissions? Gravity can push, ever tried to roll a car uphill? The weak and strong nuclear forces are also from Bosons, why are light and gravity special? Did you know you can send enough light into a region that you can cause that region to pass into a blackhole, it's a called a Kugelblitz.

Rapid fire of some refutations.
I fully agree and wasn't trying to justify the enforcement of long obtuse contracts that support the degradation of privacy.
Because people generally find that informed consent is the only consent that counts. If someone cannot read a contract, how can they give informed consent to it?

If we decide that uninformed consent is still consent, we open a significant problem. And if we try to patch it by selectively applying the standard, we introduce arbitrariness which is an even larger problem.
There aren't many catastrophes that would totally wipe out Earth but still leave offworld colonies intact. Even after a supervolcanic eruption or plague or nuclear war there'll probably still be more living humans on Earth than on Mars. And supernovas and rogue AIs can wipe out both. I like the idea of settling space because I think human lives, if they're pleasant, are intrinsically valuable and I'd like there to be a trillion people in the solar system eventually. But in terms of of overcoming catastrophies you're better of donating to groups like Allfed or AI safety or arms control groups.
The very first sentence points to a PZ blog post about a Windows vulnerability that affects the Chrome sandbox, not an issue with their own code.
Still if they want they can allow only Quadro cards to expose the necessary interfaces on the host side.
Hey should just offer to subscribe, and just make clear there is a 30% Apple tax for paying through Apple, and is cheaper if signed up through the web. Consumers whom want to pay the Apple tax will, those whom would sign up online would still do so. I dont see the big deal here.
Yes, Russia is (still?) a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, in which it agrees to be bound by decisions of ECHR. There have been quite a few ECHR cases where monetary compensation was awarded from Russia to someone, and up until now Russia has been complying with these decisions and paying these compensation amounts.
MS only owns GitHub, not git. Likewise, MS doesn’t own docker, Linux, or, as other comments have mentioned, any of the actual linters in the image. I don’t really see the problem, unless you’re actually developing inside the MS / .Net ecosystem.
It's literally just a folder full of perfectly normal HTML files. You don't need Javascript or a SPA to double-click one of those and look at it in a browser.

Even better, if your operating system has full-text file indexing, it'll be able to search them normally.
The Eastern supply chains are mostly restored but liquid soap, alcohol, Lysol, and other cleaners are unobtanium. Some frozen foods are still cleared out because nobody is eating out and stores haven't compensated for the demand.
Wouldn't your premise mean that at some scale you can't actually operate? It's not really possible to operate and actually be liable all content on facebook, or youtube, or etc right?
Using fentanyl for recreation is wrong on so many levels.

It wouldn't be a topic of discussion now if opioid users had safer and better alternatives.

Disclaimer: I'm not a recreational opioid user. My brother, on the other hand, was an opioid addict who died of a heroin overdose. This topic is personal to me.
"Making ends meet was sometimes a challenge, which made me very salary-sensitive and averse to the risk of income disruption."

This. I think a large chunk of society forgets that after you get past 25 and actually have a life and responsibilities, that a meager $100k in a particular region is barely enough to cover base expenses, childcare, car/home loans, etc.

Out of curiosity, how long were you the sole earner before getting to a better state of financial security?
Probably because the etymology of this word has little to do with the connotation of this word, at least as it exists in the minds of most people.
I don't know about that.

Okay, this was long ago, but we had to roll out a new top-level website. I decided to be a complete hardass about it. Everything would validate, both for HTML and CSS. I would follow ADA standards as well as I could understand them. I dutifully tried things out in lynx. I even made some print style sheets (a new concept at the time). However, I had almost nothing to test on.

I got a lot of flak for being slow, we should hurry this up, and so on. And yet the emails would come in later from the higher ups, "Wow, this works on my Blackberry!" I had no access to such a device, but plodding adherence to various guidelines, as dull as they were, saved my bacon there. Even the disability folks I could find seemed pleased.

It isn't "move fast and break things" but you can reap a few benefits out of it.
Shutting down startup: who pays for legal costs?
Hi HN,

Unfortunately, I need to shut down my startup. Currently, we have legal debt because (my awful mistake) we consulted a firm early on and they helped us incorporate and generate basic legal documents.

It wasn't until it was too late did I realize I could have done this for $500 with Stripe Atlas and Avodocs.

Now we have over $10k of fees that the lawyer has deferred for us under the condition that we get funding.

When shutting down the startup (C-Corp), does anyone know what happens to these fees? How does the piercing of the corporate veil work?

Also, any advice on breaking the news to the stakeholders?
The silver lining here is that this could potentially push companies to shift user generated content to data models that protect privacy in order to absolve the platform provider from any responsibility. Signal for example has avoided information requests thanks to their architecture that respects privacy.
> I'm not sure why exactly

Might be ease of typing? Eg: `foo = 'bar'` doesn't require any shift chords, whereas `foo = "bar"` requires two. Though then I'd expect similar preference for kebab-case in identifies, for similar reason.
You kidding me? We're all getting the coke. Just because you're not Scarface doesn't avoid the fact that all of us are awash in plastics, silicone, rare earth metals, concrete, steel, precious metals, alloys, goods from far flung lands, industrial agriculture and many assumptions about available services that rely on the same and ravenous upstream fossil fuel consumption. We (as human consumers) never had it so good, and if that luxury is unevenly distributed, the fact remains that the tide continues to lift all boats globally. You certainly benefit from the aggregate bounty society as a whole has reaped (enjoy that Starbucks!) and directly are living a better life today than someone of your station would have lived 300 years ago. I don't even know you in the least, but am comfortable making that statement categorically because the difference is global capabilities is that profound.
That person is either a troll or an idiot; don't waste your time.
Yeah, I never really understood all the animosity against Mozilla or Firefox around this.

IMO giving money toward homophobic causes is reprehensible, and Eich sounds like someone I wouldn't want to be friends with or work with, but he is not Mozilla and Mozilla is not him.

> He has the freedom to say what he believes ... IMHO this was just an excuse to get [rid] of him as CEO.

I support the right of employees to hold their executives to high standards, even (especially?) when those standards aren't directly related to the work they do. It was a messy situation and perhaps not handled perfectly, but I don't see anything wrong with the end result being his resignation. Yes, the timing was suspicious (I would have been uncomfortable reporting to him "even" as a CTO), but I would argue more along the lines of "took you long enough" instead of "why is this suddenly an issue now?"

> ... but not his politics

I really dislike seeing things like this phrased as "politics". Treating other people with respect and giving them equal rights isn't politics, it's basic human decency. I hope in 50 years we look back at this time period and are appalled at how we treated our fellow humans.
> Yes, it is. Keynes said at one point that the government printing dollar bills and burying them for people to dig up would be a valid form of economic stimulus.

This does not make it the center piece. The center piece of Keynesian economics is that state intervention is necessary to moderate the booms and busts in economic activity.

> Milton Friedman did not advocate anything like the arbitrary manipulation of the money supply by the government that is practiced by the Federal Reserve.

Sorry, but clamping the growth of money supply with a k-rule, irrespective of the market cycle, is the arbitrariest manipulation I can think of.

> No, the government printing money and giving it to a few favored parties (.../...)

We can agree there that governments giving money to the already super wealthy is a bad think. But why does it do that? Because same super wealthy have become so wealthy they can influence government.

Which brings me to your case on Rome. The reason why Roman emperors debased their coins was because they had emptied their coffers on other things yet /needed/ to keep the army strong for what was essentially a looting regime to survive. At the end of the day, Emperors are not governments, they are another form of super-rich protecting their short-term positions at the expense of longer term stability.
I guess my point is that the term "virtue signalling" is used to undermine someone's belief that something is an actual virtue.

If I say "don't be racist" and you call me a virtue signaller, you are implying that I don't actually care if you're racist, I just want social points for being "good". The problem is you don't know if I care or not. I might care deeply. I might dedicate my life to being anti-racist, but you can just label it virtue signalling and move on? that's an intellectually dishonest maneuver.
I guess that's good news for the Octave project.

Unless we're fully heading towards 2 internets from the American side as well, I don't know how you would stop that from being downloaded in China. I would say they'll just go around the fire-wall...that kind of argument has not been persuasive as of late.
Why would it matter if it's upstream? Upstreaming something like this is not really useful to anyone but Microsoft; it is still something that is inextricably tied to Windows and WSL.

The point is not "extinguishing" Linux per se, it's achieving enough lock-in that only Linux that Microsoft customers can use is WSL.
Nuclear. The answer always has been nuclear.
Preloading on button-down, nice detail optimization. It's possible that you have to abort that request, but it will be the rare exception. It's my favorite thing I learned today.
Stop Windows 10 from auto restarting after updates
From your other replies, I get the sense it shouldn't be callied "prison abolition", but "prison minimization where it makes sense, lets see how far we can take it". The former sounds like the dumbest idea you could possibly have, while the latter sounds perfectly sensible. From that perspective, you could not possibly have chosen a worse name for your movement, and it'll guarantee its failure under a torrent of questions like "this man raped and murdered my daughter - and you want him to go free??"

If you want to make a difference, call it something else.
You can hire them in Europe, Huawei has R&D sites in Europe.
I'm reminded of this quote:

> we don't understand where our consciousness comes from
I had some time to think about this comment, and I really like it. It demonstrates the issue underlying issue I was getting at with my original comment, but didn't express because it would not have come across as believable. I've encountered a lot in my career and has been the impetus for my last three job changes.

Hearing this tells me three things: you don't respect my work, you're publicly demonstrating that you're better than me, and that you're entitled to something from me for putting me in my place. Microaggressions like these are difficult to work with, no matter how much you're paid.

I'm sure you're a great developer, you've probably been promoted a lot, lead a big team and are generally well liked (at least on the surface). However, there are lots of developers and engineers that have been put down their entire lives and never really developed the social skills to stand up for themselves. Somehow, even over the internet, people like you can hone in on this and leverage it.
If an spa is behaving like that, the coders have failed at their job.
Apple rejects appeal from email app Hey
Just done some more reading around and it seems most people are using docker in WSL to get things work! This seems overkill to me. I usually just write CUDA code in linux and use it. Am I missing something?
It's possible to look at this in a less black-and-white way: when there are multiple parties involved in delivering content (the ISP, the website, and the author), who should decide what happens, and how responsible should they be for the content?

Net Neutrality says that the ISP shouldn't decide, but it doesn't cover other disputes.
Maybe you can't, maybe you should have thought of that before assuming this liability.

But for society at large good faith attempt at following your own rules would suffice probably.
> What do you dislike about bugs being highlighted as you type

many things "highlighted as you type" aren't "bugs".

let greeting = "Hello " + user.name;

Auto-fixing immediately flags this with "DAMN YOU USE A CONST!!!!" (multiple red squiggles that I have to hover and review).

but... I might be making a change to it a few minutes later... but I've got some damn visual shit flashing in my eyes that "USE A CONST"

concat strings? PREFER TEMPLATE!!!

OK, ESlint, have it your way, please auto-correct that...

`Hello ${ user.name}`;

WTF?

And... this is just one set of 'best practices' to learn - change per language/framework/team multiple times (sometimes in the same week) and it's... difficult.

Yes, I'm an old-fogey. I have close to 30 years of muscle memory of using string concat and double quotes. "auto-fixing as I type" brings a huge interruption of flow, and THESE ARE NOT BUGS. They are style choices someone else is imposing on me. It doesn't make the code less buggy. It doesn't make the client any happier. If someone else coming in to the code is genuinely confused, confounded or severely impeded by

let greeting = "Hello " + user.name;

to the point where they have trouble deciphering the work, perhaps they're not terribly good at their job?

Goodness help folks when new management comes in and demands a new 'better' style.
I don't think they are as different as you say. Take the example of the NY Times and Youtube. Both accept content from unaffiliated authors, monetize it, and pay the authors. They both apply censorship based on the ideas expressed by those creators (note the recent censorship of Tom Cotton by the NY Times). Why should the NY Times be liable for what it runs but at the same time Youtube avoids this liability?
I mentioned nuclear. It is secondary to the conversion from coal to gas though in terms of near-term realized benefit.

Nuclear requires a lot of dereg and testing that will be decades out if we start today. This assumes the barriers of popular rejection can be overcome. China might pull it off, but I don't see the US radiating enthusiasm for it. But yeah, since few places on earth can take advantage of hydro, I don't see any long-term alternative to nuclear.
He didn't steal the cop's gun. The other cop admitted to standing on his shoulders while he died. What happened was reprehensible. You can and should fault the police for what happened.
I agree with you, but I also think 536 could be considered worst because of the initial shock. But as other events roll in with time, people may become used to expecting the worst.

I'm thinking this way because of our current situation with the corona virus. Initially people were all into doing everything to protect themselves but as time goes in, we kind of get used to living our lives around the existence of the pandemic and the videos of people dropping dead in china aren't going around anymore.
The world is a wide place. If someone has a system and it works for them, it is not my job to take that system away simply to make things a little more convenient for myself.

You never know when you, personally, become the non-mainstream person.
What I learned from over 1k code reviews
I am jaded when it comes to promises of change. If you want to reach others like myself, that explanation of what you're doing needs to be up front. What are you doing that's new? Will you show your work, share those analyses?

Rattling off "501(c)(3)" and "527" is technical detail. Keep it somewhere, but not the first thing on the "friendly" pages. I need to know that you'll spend my money on campaigning, not the laws that allow it.
Could it be that the problem with the linters you've experienced was that they were just configured far too strictly about things that don't matter too much, rather than linting itself being the problem?

I've got my linters set up pretty loosely, but the things that are enabled have definitely helped me detect bugs earlier and quicker, and I really don't see how anyone could be against that.
> about 3x as expensive as basic web hosting.

Good, that's a bargain IMO. I get way more than 3x the value out of webflow than I do "basic web hosting".
No because have section 230 protections in the first place. They can arbitrarily start playing Mao and banning people for arbitrady undisclosed reasons and it would be legal.
That is a major Chesterton's fence.
Using mixed-blurriness environment sounds like a nightmare to me, even if everything should work correctly.