skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a disconnect that keeps running through a lot of the arguments from the conservative side which I don't understand. The examples given in this piece are a) the right of street protesters to be heard without being attacked by government officers vs b) the right of people to not get fired for what they say by private organizations like the New York Times.

This disconnect keeps coming up, and it's extra weird because conservatives have traditionally been the bigger proponents of corporate freedom to fire whoever they want. But now many conservatives seem to want some kind of new labor protection laws.

Maybe what is going on is not really about free speech but more about quickly changing cultural norms. It used to be OK to make blatant racist and sexist jokes in an office setting but at some point that changed and now you can easily get fired over it. That's not a change in free speech restrictions, it's a change in what is considered culturally acceptable behavior between private actors. But changing cultural norms aren't something that should be somehow regulated by the government.
Perl 7, not quite getting better yet
I am glad they are using the open source for the flight control software now. Not only it is a great way to learn more about the technology, but it might actually benefit from extra set of eyes reviewing this safety critical code.
"We start focusing on the How To, and too easily lose sight of the actual end goal. The prescription ⏤ the training regimen ⏤ becomes the object of our desire. To execute it perfectly. And just like that, we become robot instead of artist."

A counterpoint to that is the idea of "trusting the process". Work out the path to the goal and then focus on the path without distraction. Don't be mislead by hunches that you incorrectly think will get you there, or bad habits come naturally. There'd be issues though if the goal moves or if a significant part of it all was about enjoyment.
You can't get screwed if there's no government to screw you.

You want the government to do 100 different things. One of them will be to screw you over.

Big government is not a predominantly western political system. Small government is.
> If luck is the dominating factor, how is the outcome of any election legitimate? Aren’t the winners merely the luckiest?

On the one hand, I think this may be conflating different senses of luck. On the other hand, yes, luck played a big role in the winner of the election ending up in that position, but not because the election itself was akin to a coin flip (hyperbole), but because luck has a small impact innumerable times in the goings on of that individual's life leading up to that point.

> Where’s the safety net for the unfortunate also-rans?

Thinking about this, it's actually a good question. If the goal of an election is to select the person most able to perform the role of the elected position most satisfactorily, then providing a mechanism by which those without access to traditional campaigning resources and capital to participate could allow more qualified individuals to participate in the election who otherwise wouldn't have been able to.

And this is, I think, precisely the point of saying that luck is a bigger factor than people acknowledge because in order to be elected today, you need to have the connections and capital necessary to execute a successful campaign while continuing to fulfill any other obligations you have during the time leading up to the election, and you need to have something in place to deal with not being elected, something to fall back on. That's a whole bunch of moving parts that need to align before it makes sense to participate in an election.
it's not "get it anyways", they're going to get it because the quarantine is over.

Early lifting of the lockdown combined with things like people unwilling to wear masks and social distance themselves is going to render the benefits of the lockdown useless. America wasted the quarantine. The last few months have been rendered meaningless. That's not the case in other first world countries.
Acceptance of an idea is not at all the same thing as the ability to express an idea.

Free speech protects the expression of ideas, no matter how disagreeable or vile some demographics may find them. And LGBT ideology was certainly viewed as vile by the majority of the population for many decades and would have been completely stomped out from discourse if not for free speech protections. Want to see what would have happened to the LGBT community without strong free speech protection? Look no further than Russia.

The necessary cost of free speech is allowing speech one disagrees with. People who enjoy the benefits of free speech but fail to understand this core tenet boggle my mind.
It would have to be even higher than that level of accuracy, because every person is going to be 'tested' multiple times.... if everyone's face is scanned 100 times a day, the number of false positives is going to be even higher.
Well put! These preachy “just follow the rules” kind of comments garner lots of upvotes but completely underplay what it means to be human.
Anonymity is a major key why older forums were much, much better than our social media of today.

Most forums were based around a hobby or a particular subject, and communities formed around that. Sure, you'd have arguments, or someone stepping out of line, easily solved by a moderator. Sometimes moderators got to powerful and people left and joined another or did something else.

Most of my forum days were based on PC building or video games. Most of them had a bunch of boards with varying topics - and possibly a politics one. You could always separate it out easily because it wasn't visible by default.

Social media today everything is visible by default without anonymity. There is no effective way to filter content - only people, or profiles.
True (and I'm aware of those APIs). Just pointing out that "I want to know what's on the system clipboard without the user explicitly pasting" does not automatically equal trying to hoover up your data and phone home with it.
I seem to be the only person who likes the AWS UI. So here's my defense of it.

AWS is like the hardware store. Who thinks Home Depot is elegant? It's not. Who think their organization scheme is a thing of beauty? It's clunky and just functional.

But the idea is, when you go to Home Depot, you're there to get work done. The interior communicates that. The real work comes after you leave - Home Depot understands it's just a facilitator.

AWS did that.

I personally give credit to AWS for looking at Google, and learning. They could've had some high-handed PM come in and roar ITS TIME TO HAVE A UNIFIED DESIGN SCHEME and then forced everyone to deal with UI updates nonstop, you know the game of 'where did it go now,' 'oh, they moved it here.'

AWS went in the opposite direction. At the risk of ugliness, they give you the most bare bones UI, basically 'nudging' you as little as possible - a clean mapping of fields, to pages, to results. We know the downside: it can be unpleasant. But the upside is, it rarely changes, its consistent, and (aesthetic concerns aside) it gets the job done.

It seems a little weird to commend AWS for their design sense, but when you phrase it as their design goals, I vastly prefer them to Google or any other 'opinionated' service.
> It was only after the Civil Rights Act was passed (which was six days into the race riots mentioned, so real actionable change that came from them)

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed into law on the second of July 1964, had been in the works since before Mr. Kennedy's (unrelated) assassination in 1963; it passed the House 290–130 and the Senate 73–27: I really doubt that six days' rioting can be credited with passing it.
Yeah, no. If it was this we'd see some data like this, but we never do. Powers want to protect that data from seeing the light of day.
2019 interview with Wirecard CEO Markus Braun: “Our compliance is best of class”
More evidence that Facebook should be broken up. Or, I should be able to create a separate FB Marketplace account.
If you google “solar panel efficiency”, you will instantly find several sources that all indicate that most (cheap!) solar panels are 15% to 20% efficient, which is 50% higher than the number you’re providing. Top end residential solar panels are over 20% efficient, somewhere in the neighborhood of 22%. Specialized/research solar panels can reach efficiencies of over 40%.

Also, energy density is not nearly as important as you seem to fundamentally believe. It’s pretty much all about cost and availability.

In countries that use very little energy per capita, even just a single solar panel (with a small inverter and a lead acid battery) per person (or even per family) is life changing, giving them enough energy to run a small refrigerator, a light bulb, and a place to recharge their smartphone without having to go into town and pay someone.

In deep urban environments, space is definitely at a premium, but I struggle to imagine that many people are excited to set up a dirty diesel plant in the town square when air quality is already bad enough due to heavily polluting vehicles running in the city center, let alone set up a small nuclear plant, even if wealthier countries would allow such a proliferation of nuclear technology and fuels. Once the nuclear fuel is spent, then you have this extremely toxic, dangerous waste that has to be put somewhere, and those people probably have a lot of other things on their minds, so you could just be rad poisoning their town by giving them nuclear if they don’t dispose of the waste properly.

On the other hand, the rooftops are prime locations for solar panels and solar water heaters, and because 175W/m^2 of solar converted electricity is actually a ton of energy, it’s still plenty of power.

Unfortunately, cost and availability are king. Wealthy countries are happy to sell old assets at a steep discount, and so shiny new solar panels have to compete with second hand fossil fuel plants / generators that don’t lend themselves to great air quality.

Solar is an extremely sensible solution. Nuclear is not a clear answer at all for developing countries, unless you happen to have the design for a clean, portable cold fusion reactor in your pocket. Fission has a lot of problems that are manageable, but managing those problems takes significant money.
Pure electronics, visually represents the subject, and manages to be functional. I see it as art.
It could be hot enough for a pre-stage on a water heater. Many houses don't have the fridge close to the water heater, but some do, and if you were designing a house around a system like this, you could choose your layout.
Sure it only consumes 200W but it moves a lot more than that, which is what can be taken advantage of instead of radiating/convecting it off the back of the fridge
Intel finally lost Apple because Skylake QA 'was abnormally bad'
I didn’t read it as Costner being a “savior”. She had all the agency and action. She just needed someone to give her a fair shake. I should go back and read the book though because I’m curious about where they bent the story for dramatic purposes.
> how much bashing Google gets for monopoly with Android, pushing users to use Chrome, Play Store and whatnot

I’ve never noticed that criticism come up in the wild. The criticism I’ve seen of Android is that it’s primarily a surveillance device with a questionable security model.
Law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors
How to write PureScript react components to replace JavaScript
Agreed. When I was a teenager a worked at an organization whose entire business was run on internal applications built out in FileMaker Pro largely by non-programmer teenagers and young adults. It was actually pretty awesome, and I was still able to drop into a basic scripting language on the few occasions I needed to implement some non-trivial logic.
White-space determines control-flow?
I am not actually talking about the quality of the UI - I am just pointing out that the UI seems to have been the same for years now, and I would think a rewrite from Perl would have changed that. Yes, you can totally swap out the backend, but IMDB codebase is old. HTML and the sprinkled JS (if you look at page source) is probably baked in deep.
As a photographer, i can guarantee that spending 10 hours on preparing an exhibition will be much more useful than 10 hours “engaging” on Instagram.

A gallery show will bring people to you and your work, let you sell prints, collect emails, potentially meet publishers/other curators/etc. Good luck getting noticed in all the noise on Instagram, or making any money.
Background clipboard access is already blocked on Android, except for direct entry apps such as keyboards.

Of course it's still possible to check the clipboard when the app receives focus, just like on iOS.
> Additionally, these trackers are usually picked out by business analysts / product managers on different teams

This. I remember at my last company, we ended up with 8 or 9 different analytics tools all getting different data and showing one or two "cool views" the PM had put together.

It's such a big problem that solutions like segment.io exist to broker your events to N different downstream solutions.

Truly, this is the darkest timeline.
Saying someone "didn't live a virtuous life" is not factual. In this case, it's an irrelevant and tasteless opinion about a victim. It implies Floyd somehow deserved to be shot in the back and killed.
Just wait until you get to the story of Hip, hip, hooray
Usually it’s who you know.

I did consulting work for a few CFOs whom I wouldn’t let near my kids lemonade stand till.
Android has. (Also I assume a pile of other, no longer available/not very successful mobile OSes, but the ecosystem is just Apple and Android at the moment).
Yep, Facebook in my day (I deleted it in 2014), was a lot better. It was just people saying what they did, sharing photos. It seemed a lot less political. And companies weren't fully onboard yet in using their ad campaigns, and politicians weren't either.

And perhaps too bad actors weren't involved.
Are there any tools where you can design something in the UI, and then export it as actual React or JavaScript code, that you can then take and upload somewhere else?

Using low-code as a developer to iterate faster, and bang out lots of mini code apps quickly, is an interesting idea.
What is it about vertical farms that prevents calorically dense foods? Also, I know something like lettuce would not be dense, potatoes probably dense, but is there a cutoff/metric, e.g., calories-per-gram for this determination?

Thanks for the insights!
Intel Quietly Launches 15.3TB Ruler SSDs
Shouting people down in public and on the internet doesn’t change opinions. People just talk more quietly or take more care with whom they share their thoughts and opinions.

Cancel culture, outrage culture, and the general “social justice” movement is not much more than a wide scale attempt to silence dissenting thought. Build your own bubble, and shout down anyone who thinks or speaks differently. Yell and call it “offensive.” The genius of it is you get to decide what’s offensive, and move the goalposts as you see it. Brilliant!

Once you’ve successfully filled your world with only viewpoints that you don’t find problematic, you can be shocked when a man like Donald Trump wins the Presidency.

People in the United States need to thicken up. Learn to hear a thought different from your own. Stop retreating into a stupid safe bubble where your thoughts and ideas don’t have to be challenged. Grow up.
What functionality do you use that’s missing from the Office 365 web app? I didn’t use it for a few years, then had to again recently, and was surprised how well it worked (in Firefox even!)
From the site...

>Some states have passed temporary eviction moratoria

>Once these measures expire, however, millions of renters will owe significant amounts of back rent. For many, a displacement and eviction crisis will follow the public health crisis.
When are you going to patch the https proxy bug?
I don't think your performance numbers are very accurate. I've done a bit of Perl and a lot of Python and they're fairly comparable in most cases. Python is lightning fast for a lot of scripting tasks and I generally use very few libraries for day to day tasks because the Python stdlib is so good.

Unless you're doing something really simple with Perl command line switches that operate over an entire file, I'd bet Perl and Python solutions will be in the neighborhood of the same number of loc even with all the magic in Perl as Python has a lot of modern conveniences. It's easy to build a complex datastructure in Python with nested dictionaries with sets/lists/other dictionaries... whatever. In Perl it's more complex.
Other ideas: execc, cexec, cmk, mkc, exc, cex (my personal favorite :p).
Undervolting with SecureBoot in Linux
Yes, you are correct. I meant .5% IFR
If you don't want fossil fuels (even natural gas), then it'll likely be a ground source heat pump. You just drill a number of deep wells -- each 100' of well gives you about 1 ton of heating/cooling (1 ton is 12,000 BTU/hrs or ~3.5KWh). For a decent sized building you'd be looking at probably a dozen or two 1-2K ft deep wells.

The nice thing is, you don't need much room on site, you can even drill them into the basement after the foundation is done before the steel goes up.

With a split system, the heat-exchangers can be in the basement and the refrigerant (R410A) run to the air handlers located elsewhere.

Of course, the more you insulate the building, the less heating and cooling you need.
I've seen negative comments of people claiming this is fruitless and that it pretends to solve racism forever (here and elsewhere).

No one involved in naming this thought that was the case. They are giving overdue recognition.

I can't imagine why people would be negative about this besides feeling threatened.
Sounds like that’s the Apollo app. It’s a pretty nice feature but I find it only seems to work for me when I open the app, so I have to force close it. There’s probably a button for it somewhere, but having one on the home page (or similar) seems like it would be equally good or better UX while also getting the users consent to read their clipboard (since they’re clicking the button).

Really nice app in general though.
I would prefer something like:

match node:
on (time _ 1 @ 0, foo _ 2, bar _ 3, baz _ any, status _ 1 @ -1):
do_something()
rematch do_something_2(foo)

'_' indicating span, and '@' indicating position of the first item. Both can be omitted.
That doesn't include the headers. It also leaves a.out on your system.
Enough to drive a Model 3 about 1.5km.
Wait but why has some good articles on the value of free speech.

https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/09/american-brain.html

If you have time, the whole series that article is part of is a great read.
Thank you for the thorough clarification! I don't know much about sales, so the previous comment was pretty opaque to me.
I don't think you realize how easy it is to setup a new website. The apple store doesn't have a lot of friction to sign up as a developer and get an app approved, but it has some. Websites are far far easier / quicker etc, and despite browser warnings phishing attacks continue to be very successful. This includes lots of creative options such as windows.net domains using azure cloud compute, cloudfront and CDN domains to host, content coming from places like dropbox, google sites etc.

We actually already know browser warnings are not enough because there continue to be incredible attack volumes in this area with malicious websites as landing pages.
> I don't think it holds up.

Could you clarify where it doesn't hold up? The biggest issue I can think of with the loom as computer analogy is reusing previous work. Perhaps what you are describing about the boundary between the cards and the data (at least for a loom) is that you can't write data out the cards and then read it back in again. But even here, I'm not exactly sure that's theoretically watertight.

Suppose you had a seed set of cards that formed a chain. Based on that you weaved fabric which had strategically placed holes such that they could function like a card. Given that you can now write output in the same format you read input, does this mean you could use a Jacquard Loom as a Turing Machine (never mind whether someone would do such a harebrained idea)? And of course, just because you maybe could doesn't mean that anyone bothered, in large part for the reasons that the inventor of the tabulator machine chose to use punch cards (rather than fabric) in the first place!

That machine you reference does seem to be the first machine that can both write and read to its input medium, the punch card, and from there, I suppose, it is history. Still, I'm convinced that there's something very interesting and maybe core to computation embedded in humanity's usage of the loom and in fabric itself. We can earnestly consider it a predecessor to the printing press (and tabulating machines) in how it provided technology to store and preserve bytes of data (representing bitmapped images) in fabric. This is another grasp in the dark, but it almost reminds me a little bit of the FFT.
> The same free speech that is protecting racists today is the same one that prevented Gay people from being censored in the 90s for their "deviant" behavior.

You mean the guys I went to college with that went into a bar together and got beat up for it?
I don't think, based on my own family history, that the vague stereotypes you're talking about had anything to do with why women did or didn't become programmers early on. Do you assume men weren't involved in the textile industry?

What happened (anecdotally) is that early in the history of computers, it wasn't possible to get into an engineering program for any reasonably bright woman. They're like "of course we admit women, but we already have a woman". The punch line being that they didn't even have one woman as an undergraduate. So maybe you go to a woman's college, and maybe you study math, and then you end up working as an assistant to an engineer, who is analogous to a secretary, taking engineering problems and coding them.

[Edit: I have or had a picture of the person I'm describing with a non-industrial knitting machine, but probably considerably later than the 50s when she started programming]
No offense to Salmon Chase, but the bill denomination your face shows up on is not proportional (even logarithmically) to one's importance or worth as a human being
That is pretty neat, I did not know that 'for i' on it's own could iterate the args like that.
A forum is an online place or media where you have social interaction, hence a social media.

You control idea by controling the language. It turns the internet is actually the social media and each and every thing online is de facto also a social media.

Email is a social media, a blog is a social media, bbs is a social media, usenet is a social media, a forum is a social media, a wiki is a social media, and so on.

The name social media is a marketing ploy akin to the "cloud" to manipulate opinion and mind into thinking a certain way about large companies whose business is massively collecting user personal data without providing any meaningful service other than sitting in between the people wanting to interact.

It's a good old switcheroo. When you hear "social media" you could actually revert it back to "the internet" as it used be.
But when you hear social media you actually think facebook / twitter, which means the marketing ploy succeeded in its attempt of replacing the internet by facebook/twitter.

And it's not only the word, facebook has actually tried to replace the internet in several countries, notably with the facebook basics program outrageously disrespecting net neutrality.
But a few companies are also quite literally replacing the internet infrastructure by their own and the decentralized distributed design by a centralized one.