skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of seeing an imagine of a lady walking her dog while riding a segway with people making fun of her. My thought was what if she'd blown out her knee? Or was like a friend of mine who had really bad arthritis in his hips. Or my 85 year old dad who can ride a bicycle, ride a horse, drive a truck, but because of his sciatica can't walk more than an 1/8 of a mile.
I feel the same way, but it’s also something about a stubborn unwillingness to accept the fate that we can’t ever have meaningful political discourse without unreasonable consequences for mildly unpopular stances. That’s not to say I think anyone should be able to say anything without consequences, but the fact is right now people are using intimidation and guilt by association tactics to try to push out all sorts of opinions, gradually making any opposition more extreme and grouping unrelated sects of thought together to increase divisiveness, and not just for opinions that were always universally believed to be deserving of scorn.

I am keeping intentionally vague because this is an issue bigger than any individual controversial opinion. I am sure I have many opinions that are controversial to somebody, even as a pretty liberal person, although in all honesty I probably could not identify all of them on my own. Maybe some of them will change, maybe not. Should someone be “cancelled” forever for holding such an opinion? Are people allowed to change, or, god forbid, just simply not agree on something clearly divisive? I believe the answer should be yes so as long as they are not trying to infringe or invalidate someone else’s rights or existence. And certainly, perhaps above all, the right response to ignorance is education and not vitriol. Unfortunately, escalations only seem to get more toxic by the year, with a heavier emphasis on appeals to emotion and not reason.

It’d be remiss to not mention bad actors who intentionally try to abuse good faith, too... but I feel that nowadays, the pendulum has swung far into the other direction.
Flamewar detector I think. IIRC HN posts are automatically down-ranked if the ratio of comments to upvotes gets above a certain threshold, because a large number of comments relative to upvotes frequently indicates that there's a flamewar going on in the comments section.
The hoverboards don't use the same technology, which is what allows them to levitate.
Yes, three people on the tour crashed, two of them required an ambulance.
Wishful thinking: George R. R. Martin offers a new Winds of Winter estimate
> They'll probably make a 1 wheel version.

They did a few years ago: https://www.segway.com/ninebot-one-s1/
The Skripal case: wasn't that the case where a supposedly "Weapons-Grade Nerve Agent", instead of killing hundreds of people in the area within minutes, only managed to affect 5 people. And of those five people only one died.

If I had been paying for that "Weapons-Grade Nerve Agent" I'd be asking for my money back!
> The amount of effort that went into this hack is, frankly, terrifying.

and if a government did it, it would not be much harder for them to do it to everyone in the world at the same time before any exploits get fixed...
> if you move to a major Canadian city from a major American one with purely financial motivations, you will be sorely disappointed.

I think I've already acknowledged this.

> If you want to move to Canada I encourage you to do so,

Don't be so sure I won't. We should hang out then, since we both like arguing about inconsequential stuff online for way longer than is healthy :-P
Of all the things the NYT has done over the last couple of decades this is a strange one to cancel your subscription over.
A friendly suggestion: do as the locals do.

Walk, take the public bus, take the metro.

Skip tuktuks, Segways, quads, organized tours, "sightseeing" private double decker buses.

Gentrification is killing the beauty of Europe and other places, tired feet or not.
Ah, maybe I'm missing some subtleties. I was referring to "you're not supposed to have intent to immigrate on a X visa", which never seemed to matter as I personally applied for H1-B and a greencard while on a J1
Stephen Hsu and Guilt by Association
Pray you never have to bulk export your passwords. It is extremely painful.
Clone URL should be visible instantly, not after 1 click. It's by far the most common thing I need.
I tried twice to get started with Haskell. I understand the language well enough, but the standard prelude gave me problems. I forget the details, but the first attempt involved reading ASCII strings from file. I had some issue with the standard string type and after a bunch of searching and trying other things, nothing worked. The second time I tried to use sockets. After a few days, I discovered sockets were both broken and deprecated.

Haskell needs to replace the standard prelude and burn the old documentation.

I have used dozens of languages and never really had any problems.

But the simplest of tasks in Haskell immediately put up roadblocks.

I’m sure if I had sufficient reason I could get passed these problems, but when easy things are not easy one loses interest fast.
Also, at least $2M... it’s probably like #1: $20M, #2: $10M, #3: $5M, and so on. So probably half the $100M went to the top 10?
Maybe it’s not a bad thing.

Look up the etymology of idiot.
that's if you got a master degree in the US. I was a student who came to the US to do an internship (on a J1) and had to get a H1B after my internship.
When you become a public figure, the press has the ability to come after you as a private person. That is the press exercising their freedom of speech. Many would say it is actually the duty of the press to investigate public figures and expose things like hypocrisy or conflicts of interest.

Would anyone here argue that an elected official operating an "anonymous" twitter feed for political purposes should not be exposed? What if they are just running for office? What if they are just a backer/patron of a political party? At what point does the public's interest in honest communication on public issues give way to the privacy of an individual wanting to speak publicly?
I went looking for it[0]

talk about hype!

>This mysterious invention, reportedly created by National Medal of Technology Award winner, Dean Kamen, is on everyone's lips and has captured everyone's imaginations.

[0] : https://web.archive.org/web/20010220161915/http://theitquest...
The Mac is not an Open Platform anymore
I could care less if a statement was positive or negative what is important is if the statement has a realistic possibility of being true.

If anything Engineering school should have taught you how to logically observe situations rather than viewing things through an optimistic or cynical lens.
Bill Proposed to Outlaw End to End Encryption
A great survey of the current landscape of ML tool innovation.

This reminds me of the explosion of "big data" tech, which feels like it started exploding in 2010 and peaked maybe five years later.

If ML follows a similar cycle, then in perhaps five years, most tools will have receded into obscurity but a few frameworks and approaches will become dominant. Big stakes and justifies the prevalence and investment in OSS.

Comparison of "big data" and "machine learning" in Google Trends -- https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=b...
After Juicero, Magic Leap, Ooya, Theranos I can't possibly believe it's the "most hyped since the Macintosh." I do clearly remember when it was first coming out, and people did in fact get in on the hype of it; but it doesn't seem even on par.
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These differences all look like net-positives, but I've always wondered how well "integration courses" would be received in America. In conversations with Europeans, I've found that many people are pro-immigration "so long as they integrate," but I think this same statement might be perceived as (rightly?) kind of racist or culturally insensitive in America.
It's extremely ironic then that IE11 and Safari are the only browsers to support HEVC, the rest didn't bother because of the licensing issues (which BPG inherits) severely limiting any chance it has of ever being natively supported.

AVIF however may have a chance.
I know people who have got an O1 from not much :)
Sort of a brilliant engineering solution to a non-existent problem. Or a very niche problem to say the least.

Mall or airport security certainly fits the niche, but difficult to scale beyond these examples.
> If you have an online presence you cannot be anonymous.

So "The Dead Past" (by Isaac Asimov) is our only option?

I reject that.

The problem is that our laws have not caught up to the fact that the Internet makes some things too accessible. We have too many things which link our personal identities exposed online because of the government which assumed that it was too much work to go to the county courthouse and look up a deed without good reason.

Now, that's not to say that someone determined cannot link things together. They obviously can. However, right now it's simply far too easy.
If that’s my goal, I’ll have a Soylent drink or GreenBelly bar.

https://Soylent.com

https://GreenBelly.co

I’ll eat a $18 hamburger because it tastes really good - yes, about 18x better than a $1 burger.
Thanks, Dan. I agree with a few other commenters that the title, however, is still woefully inaccurate...

FTA:

> Moreover, Segway said the iconic and oft-ridiculed scooter only accounted for 1.5 percent of the company’s revenue.

The submission title seems to imply the company is shutting down when in reality they are ending production of 1.5% of their revenue
It would be naïve to believe the west is immune. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
Facebook’s dominance is built on anti-competitive behavior
It's great to read this comment - it's always nice to know that community suggestions aren't just cast into the void
Java now has two low latency collectors: ZGC and Shenandoah.
Sorry, it doesn't mean that in any dictionary or in anyone's mind either when they use the term, so you can argue it is being used to oppress people but I say the term master bedroom is perfectly okay.
So a side project out of need while employed. Nice.

I also really dig the site design.
>I see the O flipped to 0, but the 0 flipped to O doesn't look out of place to me.

real question - so how did you know there was an 0 flipped to O as well?
Generally it's anonymous sources who tell the wild and not-necessarily-true stories that drive clicks. A policy limiting their use is intended to make the publication more sober. But that's supposed to happen by just not printing the story. Outing people who don't want to be outed is something else.
We can quote stats about police violence all day long, but in nearly every personal story, it usually ends with "and then the cops just did nothing and there wasn't a paper trail." I have 4 stories,4 witness accounts, and not a single one went or would have gone anywhere. That's not a small problem. And, they're in every state, in every county. This is a mafia.
I think what you’re missing is that news stories like this are designed to connect the abstract (ideas in a blog) with real people. Many/most newspaper readers are interested in other people, relationships, who is doing what, and personal connections.

The readers don’t care that there is a controversial (or radical or not) blog on the internet, they want to know if anyone important is related to the blog and whether they should try to gain influence with said people or not (by aligning or distancing themselves from said people, depending on their own connections). For example, only if the author is named can they know whether he/she is a reputable practitioner at a prestigious institution (who can thereby give influence or be vulnerable to controversy), or maybe just a random doctor in a rural town (can be safely ignored).

So for people who rely on networks of other people, such as many political, corporate, and governmental sub-cultures, the NYT gains credibility by naming names and placing people in context. In other words, the NYT is a mainstream product and service, it’s interests are perhaps not most aligned with the pseudo-anonymous world of tech and ideas that the SSC blog and HN itself appeal to and cater to.
Sure. I don't know if 'unstable' is the best name for everyone, but if the industry decides to spend the engineering time to rename default branches, we shouldn't be just be switching to the first synonym in the thesaurus, but a word that's actually more fitting than 'master'.

'mastering' is an artifact of vinyl and boxed software. Now that a lot of software is continuously tested and shipped, 'master' is not the right word for those processes. Even if you're shipping on-premise software, there rarely is a single 'master' copy anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastering_(audio)

As a side note, I've seen people try this, but there is no amount of testing that can guarantee stability. So, 'stable' feels like a false promise. Also, in the event of a bug causing downtime, _someone_ always has the ability to push directly to master and it's always possible that a fix might break a new commit's tests, even if it fixes the downtime.
Oh, I see that it does, sorry, skimmed the article.

I still think the main news here is just that the legacy Segway PT unit is being discontinued, along with the US manufacturing facilities in New Hampshire, where it doesn't make sense for a Chinese company to be manufacturing.

Seems to me like Mark Wilson of Fast company is trying to make a bigger story out of that, when I'm not sure there is one.

Fast Company has learned that the Segway brand will retire the last Segway as we know it, the Segway PT. Manufacturing at the Bedford, New Hampshire, plant will stop July 15
> There are still people and AFAIK organized communities on Reddit that target him.

Though one of the more wholesome things I've seen is when I visited that subreddit you're referring to and the consensus seemed to be that doxxing Scott was not justified.
What the hell is this? Why does it exist (I don't know anything about the context) and why does an anti-dox article share the full name, job title, website, and backstory of someone who was doxxed?
Alternatively, use caddy as a HTTPS server. It requests the certs from letsencrypt for you, for all domains that you configure it for.
Sorry tangential, but what's this frog neural network project? Looks fun!
I was with the sentiment, up to this line (which may have been in jest): “I’m a busy woman, I haven't got time to accidentally date a Virgo.”

So, you won’t date a person due to a characteristic that they can’t change or had any agency in choosing, while simultaneously decrying racism.

I just wish people could find peace...
Twitter Bans WikiLeaks-Style Website for Publishing 'BlueLeaks' Documents
and the expensive high performance long lasting plastics (e.g., those that are part of cars, computers, etc.) are made of traditional plastics

Do you really think they'll continue to use non-biodegradable plastics if they become more expensive?

I've long held the belief that "biodegradable" is really just another euphemism for "forced obolescence". The real problem is with people not reusing plastics that can theoretically last a long time, and the encouragement to not do so.
Do you think they had good PR though? I would have much preferred to ride a Segway to work than to bike (sweaty/helmet hair) or take public transit (delayed/crowded) but a Segway is just so... dorky.

Their tech got a lot of PR hype but the actual product didn’t get nearly enough hype to sell it to their potential customers.
I’d second this. In fact, I think the README should be the first thing (potentially in collapsible form so you can easily see the file list without scrolling too much).

Intuitively, I’d bet most people landing on the front page of a repo are consumers of the library looking for a README with info on how to get started or where to look for information on how to get started. Again, this is only intuition—no data to back it up. Project maintainers are most likely interacting with the issues and PR sections or code on the command line.
Mountains. US border. Ocean. The only thing that limits building in the GTA is the Green Belt.
I've been around astrology my whole life, as my mother was very much into it. I've always viewed it as a fun & convenient way to explain something that has or needs no explanation. I'm not personally into it, but I am surrounded by those who are. I just view it as a religion at this point.
>and do not want the short-term expire on LetsEncrypt.

certbot is too hard to set up?

>edit- I do not have javascript-driven pages, they are PDFs or simple content

The issue is that if the http protocol can be tampered with, even if all you serve is plain text, the attacker can change your response to contain javascript. Anyone visiting using a browser (with scripts enabled) will be vulnerable.
I used "Regularly" and it worked great. I've now upgraded to my own system which plugs into my dashboard and can generate graphs. Each time I complete a task I can give it a score, which is then graphed. I just use it for my weight, but you could use it for anything.

I should really tidy it up and promote it!
I haven't looked at AdGuard in specific, but fundamentally, AdGuard's Safari version can't be better than uBlock Origin on Firefox/Chrome, because Safari lacks the APIs to do what uBlock Origin does.

The immediate problem is that Safari has a hard limit of 50,000 rules per extension. Some developers do try to get around this with various hacky strategies like splitting their adblocker up into multiple extensions, or moving their blocker to the OS-level, or trying to recompile the list on the fly. But at the end of the day it's just a really weird hoop to jump through, and it ends up being kind of error-prone, and there's no guarantee that Apple won't break those hacks in the future.

More fundamental is the list itself -- Safari doesn't allow contextual, dynamic blocking, you have to put everything into a static list. This makes it impossible to build the kind of detailed filters[0][1] that uBlock Origin allows -- for example, there's no way to strip HTML content from a GET request in Safari before it gets parsed by the browser.

And so on. See the privacy API[2], dns[3], which is used to block a newer bypass method where 3rd-party trackers are hidden behind 1st-party subdomains. Worse CSS/JS injection, etc...

I'm not saying everyone else is crap at adblockers, I'm saying static blocklists are fundamentally less powerful and less capable than Firefox's APIs. That's especially true if AdGuard is doing something like system-wide DNS blocking. No shade at those tools, they have a place, but a browser-based extension will always be better than a setup like PiHole, because the browser has more access to a given request's current context.

[0]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering

[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

[3]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
This Game of Words will only stop when either the offended side gets tired of accusing others or the purportedly offending side gets tired of being accused of being 'insensitive'. It the former happens it is not hard to foresee a move to a new frontier of oppression. If the latter happens the game is over, people will no longer fall for these accusations. In other words, those who claim to be offended have to win the argument every time while those who are on the receiving end of these claims only have to win the argument once for the battle to be won.

In short, this strategy is doomed from the beginning since it can not be won and only serves to create discontent and division.
I would like to see them enforce equivalent salaries on H1B visas. There should not be a financial incentive for companies to do this.

The original purpose was to bring in talent where it could not be found in the US.

I believe this would be great for H1B visa employees and regular employees.

If companies want to offshore they still can and they still do. Companies that currently abuse the system would hate it.
On the one hand, I do think it's silly that Apple is discriminating against this app, but I don't really buy the entire idea that a dislike of astrology is reflective of some sort of deeper bigotry. I'm a gay man of color myself, and I find it trite and annoying when you
re discussing some interpersonal issues and someone chimes in with "oh it's because of <X astrological sign incompatibility>".

I think it's fine and fun as anything else to make memes about star signs or whatever but some people take it seriously to the point of making sweeping generalizations about people based on what the alignments of planets when they were born.
I am curious what (if anything) OP wrote that leads you to believe OP thinks the west is immune?
Actual presentation should show up on this channel soon, as it's where this talk was given: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNp-DVb8cQRIOo32sZhWgNg/vid...
Joel Spolsky does a good job of explaining what's actually happening here in his old "Strategy Letter V" from 2002 [1].

Caleb hasn't discovered some secret means of convincing people to pay for OSS they can download for free. What he's done is create a commodity (the open source package) and then once it's popular, make a tidy profit off its complimentary product (training videos).

Unfortunately it's still true that people generally won't pay for software they can download for free, but if you're willing to dip into some other types of work (e.g. consulting, creating training videos) then you can make more than enough profit top keep going indefinitely.

[1] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
> If you really don't like the rounded borders, use wget

Or just add

* {
border-radius 0 !important;
}

to the page stylesheet, either via userContent.css or a browser extension. Once you know the process, it's extremely easy to hack around web developers' poor decisions if you know a bit of CSS yourself.
I think I used to feel the same way, but over time came to understand that a problem which arises is missing context and drawing conclusions from incomplete information.

If you're sharing a sensitive piece of information about yourself with someone who already knows you well, then they have the benefit of all the prior context of knowing who you are, plus they can ask questions for clarification if needed.

Contrast this with sharing sensitive information about yourself on the web. Even if there are numerous other articles that you have published to provide context, someone who doesn't know you can easily take that single piece of sensitive information and completely misunderstand it, because frankly it's impossible to get to know everyone intimately enough to have all the supporting information.

You propose that this openness might help push society toward accepting that humans are flawed and have done things which are not socially acceptable. The problem is that behavior which is not socially acceptable can easily be interpreted as dysfunctional or outright anti-social without knowing who you are. Another example, let's say you have made a mistake in the past (as all humans have) and genuinely feel remorseful and apologetic. The remorse and apology cannot be known to be genuine except by yourself and the people closest to you.

That's why I feel it is actually vital to only share sensitive information with people who have enough context and information to properly understand and integrate it.
Cult of Personality?

A bunch of dotcom royalty were exuberant over it and so the rest of us wanted to at least know what all the fuss was about.

Then I think we saw the price and went back to yearning for a slightly used Aeron chair.
this seems true. but it kind of implies that there is a _secret_ agenda. it would kinda be more comforting if there was, but its not really clear.
Yes, a PR disaster when your company president drives your main product over a cliff.