skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are none.

The people throwing around "Communist" in public are conservatives rallying around a mythical memory of the TV version of America circa 1960, before "they" came and ruined everything.

The "they" may be: hippies, liberals, new dealers, big government advocates, black people, women, etc.

Remember the core demographic watching TV and listening to radio is old and getting older. "Communist" evoked "Soviet Union" (aka the main enemy), and that association sticks. The problem is that the demographic that gives a hoot about the Soviets is aging out, so now we're stuck with the next generation, who tends to be more explicitly focused on contemporary grievances.
Crystal Palace vs. Burnley – Premier League – FootballGH – Video Highlights
Yup they're in the Bay Area too, so it wasn't a big move. Not being able to date sucks, but if most people are moving back home, then maybe living with your parents won't have as much of a stigma. But given that we're experiencing a global pandemic, dating is something we should try to hold off on until the situation improves.
This is a perfect example of a HN reader being out of touch with what the vast majority of users actually want. There are plenty of reasons people want a native twitter app: state restoration, integration with system services, push notifications, better user experience, better accessibility, fewer ways to track the user, better permission model, ...
I think that was exactly the intended irony of that comment.
Facebook ad boycott campaign to go global
Not really “apps”, but Java features prominently in the backends of many major tech companies. Off the top of my head, I believe it’s the main server-side language at Amazon, and one of many prominent server-side languages at Google, Netflix, Apple and Uber.
Yes, I don't remember Stefan Molyneux saying anything racist. Can someone share an example?
It should be free with ad support. Five minutes of laughs followed by a commercial interlude sort of gets you in the standard sitcom world anyway. Then maybe add a premium payment option.
It matters in that we should not lobby congress to make reddit unban certain subreddits.

However, that does not mean we should not criticize reddit for not standing up for freedom of speech. You can't make your whole website based around "open and honest discussion" then ban subreddits where open and honest discussion was happening, but in ways you didn't like.
> culture- a bit informal, and yet hyper-productive; personal, and yet respectful; transparent and quite flat and approachable

This is a very rosy view of startup culture. I've rarely encountered a culture like this in 20 years of building and consulting for startups.

In fact, startups are often the least transparent organizations because they have no legal obligation to publish financial information.

> What I don't get it is that why would startups with <10-15 employees and over years in operation would want to behave like a BIG company. I have encountered startups where there would be management, useless meeting, artificial hierarchy, etc.

This happens for lots of reasons. Here are a few:

(0. Many of these things -- management, meetings, hierarchies -- are not categorically useless. They're tools that can be misused.)

1. People with big-company backgrounds join the team and reproduce what they find familiar.

2. Structure, predictability, and repeatability become increasingly important as a startup scales. People address this by defining processes, which may be inefficient (or may not -- it depends on how good the managers are).

3. When managers don't know how to solve a problem, they look at how other companies solved it. Sometimes they get it wrong. Agile is a great example: at one point, it helped a few companies, and then everyone adopted it without understanding how/why to adapt it to their own purposes. This resulted in lots of waste and a backlash against Agile.

4. Investors sometimes become armchair managers and will push startup leadership to build these processes.

5. Employees demand them. A lot of people do not enjoy flat hierarchies, 100% autonomous (meeting-less) work, or having no title. Titles in particular can be as valuable to people as a big raise in salary.
Let’s try the opposite argument then: let’s give these fringe groups more prominent placement in the Reddit ecosystem. Surely it’s better to give them more of a voice so we can know what they have to say, than letting them put in the effort to make their voices heard, right? Maybe we should donate money to these groups to help them congregate in one place so we can easier keep an eye on them too.

You don’t sell walkie talkies to Nazis hoping that they will talk themselves out of being Nazis. You take away their voice until the bad idea dies down. Now, if you want to argue that some of these things are good ideas, I am all ears on how you’d want to justify racism, sexism, and xenophobia as valuable to our society. Unless you can successfully do that, your point isn’t valid.
What did your study curriculum look like?
surprising absolutely no one :D
The general area definitely has its attractions. SF increasingly less so. And a lot of SV is soulless sprawl. But if money were no object, there are a lot of places in the Bay Area that are very attractive and the climate is mostly pretty great.

Money usually is an object though and it's not really surprising that people paying $4K a month would depart if they don't need to live there for work any longer and they can't really enjoy at least the non-natural aspects of the area.
Irony has always been a tool of the far right, from the nazis to the Christchurch shooter. How 4chan and t_d use it is not especially different.
The US government was founded upon the idea that the US government is not to be trusted. That's why our constitution features a separation of powers and contains a non-exhaustive list of things the government is explicitly not allowed to do. If the government were trustworthy, such restrictions would not be necessary.
What about Google's use of "Smart Lock" via bluetooth to secure each sign on attempt with Google Advanced Protection?
The handful of things I'm aware of:

- In China Apple allows iCloud infrastructure to be managed by Chinese companies (presumably so they can do bulk collection on user data/message backups).

- Apple removes the Taiwanese flag emoji from devices

- Apple removes the apps the CCP asks them to from the app store in China (notably this includes podcast apps with access to unapproved speech).

I wouldn't be surprised if there were more concessions.

I've written more generally about this here: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html

Apple is still the best when it comes to protecting their users in the west, but few western companies stand by their principles in the Chinese market. It's disappointing.
I was under the impression that the "by specification" idea was generally tossed out with HTML 5, where the specification started to describe the current implementation. And this was cheered by everybody. What has changed?
Luck factors more into most successful enterprises than said enterprises will ever admit..

That said, hard work and good decisions are also important. =)
> but if you go on almost ANY news website in china, the headline news is dedicated to government propaganda

Well I have news for you... Most of the news about international politics you read in the west are propaganda as well- and it works so well you're about to hit the downvote button in disbelief.
A Disastrous Summer in the Arctic
Separate submission

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23681782
Calvin and Hobbes

Calvin: "That gives me a fabulous idea!"

https://www.google.com/search?q=calvin+and+hobbes&tbm=isch

Hobbes: "Uh oh"
Did I read that correctly, they were on Subversion before this?
If it was left-wing in any actual way r/chapotraphouse wouldn't have been quarantined let alone banned.
> Every time I have to build a GUI in Linux I just build a webapp that connects to a TCP backend on localhost because that way I can just build a beautiful UI in HTML/JS/CSS and I don't have to deal with the mess that is GTK, QT, TCL, TK, and all that crap.

I suspect this has more to do with the state of native Linux development tools versus Javascript dev tools then it has to do with the general case. Dev tools for Windows and iOS/ MacOs are fairly straight forward. Not sure about Android, since my burning hatred of Java has removed my desire to mess with that platform entirely. (I know Kotlin exists, still not interested)

Update: I'm basing my comment of what it's like based on the quoted comment, not making an assertion about how good/ bad it is.
I think the poster was saying that sarcastically - a variation of the "Orange Man Bad" meme
I think that figure would be on the order of 100 billion to 1 trillion people on Earth itself. And I agree about population stagnation at about 10-12 billion for the foreseeable future.
And depends on their age - once they hit 70, 80, 90, it can make sense to have a multi-generational household again. If you count raising your own kids as multi-generational, the times in your life where it is odd to have parents and children together are the minority. You just switch which role you play every couple decades.
Technically: less the case.

Consider past agreements about/agency infiltrations to create backdoors and the like[0] or canary clauses[1] in licenses and why they exist.

Still better despite being only a partial mechanism for increasing balance between powers.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
I'm always skeptical about these government does x to distract from y arguments.

I highly doubt the indian government woke up one day and said "how can we distract the public from COVID today?" and someone replied "lets ban a bunch of highly popular mobile apps and games our citizens use to entertain themselves on the internet".

That seems like a great way to make them less distracted, not more.
> Aren't you in control over what you allow to access on the per-site basis?

You mean the same way you are in control over what data tracking you allow and what cookies can be set on a per-site basis? In theory perhaps, in practice no.
So far cargo doesn't do binary dependencies, so when you start a project, or do CI/CD, it compiles the all world from scratch.
> I would be surprised if there's much overlap between the player bases at all

I would be pretty surprised if, of those who played Nethack around the release of Diablo who also made a habit of purchasing Windows games, there wasn't a majority that also played Diablo.

> I still see no point in saying that Nethack is a better game since it appeals to totally different players.

I agree that the two are sufficiently different, and sufficiently well executed examples of their species, that personal preference between the two is likely to be dominated by the differences that cannot be reasonably labeled "quality".

FWIW, I loved both.
From the article:

> The battery they built has a 500-mile range

Cool!

> ...and can be recharged more than 1000 times.

Wait, what? That seems like a very small number to quote. I mean, I assume when a company quotes a number like that, the real number isn't _much_ higher than the number they do quote. Let's say, 1200 or so. I'd really like some clarity on that number. If 'charging' in this context means going from say 80% -> 100%, That's less than 4 years if you charge it that much every every night, which may be very close to typical. What happens after 1000 charges? I assume at that point there is some loss of capacity as is typical, but it'd be helpful to know how much loss.
Clash of Kings? That online game? Why?
You may be interested in this implementation [1] which builds the networks using PyTorch.

[1] https://github.com/uber-research/PyTorch-NEAT
Thank you for the explanation! I've worked with SVGs before but wasn't aware of this.
I'm actually impressed that you've made strides with it thus far, I'm really looking forward to start using it as a daily driver for my laptop!
Keep in mind that YT had been funneling viewers towards extreme, bizarre, fringe videos for a long time - including quite a bit of hateful content. This is something of their own doing.
My friend just did this last month. Moved back in with the parents, saving a ton of money. They actually messaged me the other day saying, "Man, my bank account hasn't ever been this full!".

It's causing some stress though, as both they and their parents get used to living under the same roof again, and how the rules might be a bit different now in your mid-20s.
Distill Symbolic Representations of DL Models Using Inductive Biases
> The researchers say that using silver-carbon instead of lithium metal in a prototype pouch yields a battery with a higher capacity, lengthens the cycle life, and makes the battery safer. The layer of silver-carbon measures only five micrometers thick, but if it can accomplish in the real world what the Samsung team pulled off in the lab, it could substantively change EVs in the future.

As others noted, it's also 50% smaller. The headline is kind of misleading the range is only part of the story.
Harvard Business Review podcast had an interesting take on this which suggested that the party-aligned primary system was the main cause. They applied Porter's 5 Forces to politics and suggested ranked choice voting would be one of the main ways to break to duopoly.

https://hbr.org/podcast/2020/06/applying-porters-five-forces...
Top Laptops 2020
Here are the best laptops for this year from various international companies
Gotta respect the iron fist of /r/askhistorians. Probably the best sub on reddit.
Because thats what you want when fingerprinting....the few users who have one connected gives you probably quite and accurate fingerprint for those users.
Even the CHAZ sub is still up which is literally doing illegal stuff with 5 shootings and 3 dead within 2 weeks. Also all the porn, rape, incest subs are allowed.
Will never happen because Indian governments are stuck in an unceasing bureaucratic quagmire. A tech solution, especially one that has to be culturally relevant and edgy to appeal to young people is absolutely beyond the scope of the Indian government machinery.
> What's wrong with just saying that it's their platform and they have the right to set the rules?

That would be a major shift in strategy for the site. It has always been billed a freewheeling place that belonged to the users, with the company that owns it being something of a benevolent overlord that keeps the lights on. That is what attracts users and content.
But of course that version of the web is dead. Any website that relies on advertisers for revenue will necessarily be limited in its tolerance for controversy.

In the end, though, I doubt it matters too much for the site’s revenue. Reddit has been dying for years according to many of the posters and yet it sees growth YoY.
These are not even remotely equivalent things.

Advertisers are not a homogeneous block. YouTube et al can afford to piss off some advertisers; if they're pissing off all advertisers, the material is probably extremely objectionable to most humans.

I challenge you to point out an example of content that has been banned from youtube because it offends advertisers, that you really think the banning of which is a significant issue. There's no shortage of material on YT hypercritical of Goldman "Vampire Squid" Sachs.

Whereas there is a long litany of material banned from Chinese networks for obvious political reasons. Furthermore, if you don't like YT's policy, you can use other video sharing sites or even gasp host your own videos. Try doing that in China and see how long it takes for men with guns to show up.
Link to paper here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-020-0575-z
Strange coincidence, considering what happened on reddit earlier
Legal liability. It does nothing to prevent them from being attacked in the press, for having their payment systems cut, or from being personally vilified.

And who knows how soon the laws will change?
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux
If that's 1000 full charge-discharge cycles, that'd be completely acceptable (assuming that the usable capacity is still close to 100% at the end of the lifespan) for a car which typically has a lifespan of 150,000 miles or so.

(1000 * 500 miles / charge) = 500,000 miles
This research was published March 9 in Nature Energy:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-020-0575-z

It appears that the key advance is to prevent dendrite growth on the anode by covering it with a layer of silver-carbon composite. No idea why silver was chosen, but it seems to be in small enough amounts not to drive up the cost of the battery. Manufacturing this battery at large scales will require scaling up the process of producing the anode, which could take a while.

It is still essentially a lithium-ion battery with the usual (cobalt-containing) cathode materials, but I see no reason the same anode technology couldn't be used with a cobalt-free cathode, should such cathodes ever catch on.
It's possible you could have been shadowbanned for other reasons. I really wish the mods at least sent a notification that you were shadowbanned at all with the reason; it would clarify things so much better.

I was personally shadowbanned when I made a new account, but I believe the reason was because I posted a link (to Imgur) in my first post. I emailed the mods and they fixed it for me, but only because I noticed my post wasn't visible after logging out.

To be clear I still don't know the exact reason, but it was apparently made in error.
I learned both juggling and harmonica from Klutz books! (I'm horrible at these things, but that has little to do with the books). I had no idea they were started in Palo Alto, but it seems perfectly suited. Over the years I've bought these books as presents probably a dozen times.

What's fascinating to me is that this is yet another product of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area, even though it has nothing to do with computers. It reminds me again of why I moved here from across the country 25 years ago.
Windows File Recovery is a new free tool from Microsoft
Guava was really popular 10 years ago, after that other libraries have caught up, not to mention Java itself.

And IntelliJ was once indeed the standard but is slowly becoming the new Eclipse because it's so bloated.
I recently tried VS Code and I was amazed how fast and lean it was, I am definitely switching.
That is just the point. I can avoid installing their native app, but it is much more difficult to opt out of these insidious and unnecessary web APIs. This is especially the case when the leading browser happens to be created by a data collection company.

Yes, Chrome is bad at managing privileges and leaking data back to Google and any other web site that is smart enough to know how to ask for it. Avoiding browsers that implement this and shaming sites that use the APIs is apparently the approach that will be necessary going forward.
I'll have to try that out. I suspect I'd still have trouble like accidentally shaking the components off center while putting them in the oven.
So you trust a third-party, a company, to define what is 'forbidden' for you to install, if they say they do this "to protect our customers"?

At least in democracy we can elect the people who define whats allowed or forbidden to us, and they can only do it, in the constraints of a constitution.

If we let companies get away with it, we are allowing them to create shadow states, a sort of new digital feudalism, where our digital overlords can control a big part of our lives. (Remember that we are going to a process of digitalization of our lives and experience, with IOT, AI, smart gadgets, to take into account how powerful a entity who can control all of this can be)

Today, its just Apple. But with people normalizing this kind of behavior, it will be more and more over time, til its too late for all of us.

By enforcing other browsers to use their implementation of Web platform, for instance, they knew they could control the Web from being a good contender to their exclusive application platform.

This kind of action alone, should be outlawed, because is pure uncompetitive behavior, not to say its hurting their customers freedom to choose whats best for them, and that actually have nothing to do with the privacy or safety of their users.
Not at all but Molyneux disagrees with so many left-of-center ideas that the effort needed to effectively detail how Molyneux is different is great, so he gets lumped in with them.
I'm not intimately familiar with the internals of rustc, but my impression was that everything gets compiled and dead code is later eliminated. In order to avoid compiling unnecessary stuff, you generally need to use feature flags (e.g. you can say "only compile this if the serialization feature is enabled").
What do you mean by "apps" then? Ofcourse any modern app will have mix of technologies, I think it's fair to call it "app" - perhaps an Enterprise Java App or Backend Java App to be exact.
Twitch and Reddit enacted bans simultaneously:

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/29/reddit-bans-pro-tru...

https://www.engadget.com/twitch-suspends-donald-trump-accoun...

Seems odd for multiple independent companies to act in concert like this.
Teens Find Body in Suitcase While Using Adventure App
People won't pay a subscription for short-form content. Back in the day cartoons came at the beginning of movies because nobody would go to a theater for a fifteen minute show. Today short-form content is supported by advertising, be it on YouTube or Facebook or TikTok.
After reading this, I think I need to learn Eclipse Collection and Micronaut.
> I believe the quote is a reasonably accurate summary of her position but it's based on second hand accounts I've read in the press

It isn't. At all. It is word for word what I'd expect from a malicious misrepresentation of what transgender activists believe and want to achieve. You may not be malicious here, but you are repeating phraseology that has been planted in the public consciousness by those who are.
Flu virus with 'pandemic potential' found in China
Is it though? At least you can see different sides, different voices.
No, just a logical fallacy.
Personally, as an Indian, I don't see this situation escalating too much, especially not anywhere close to a nuclear war. Indian and Chinese leadership is mature enough to understand that a serious conflict will hurt both their ambitions. Plus, neither can really afford a war right now.
Fake news for us, but not to those who were part of it. It wasn't fake news at all. They are going to group again somewhere else.

The member might see this as action to silence. This could make them even more angry and isolated. Reddit meanwhile will be a unreliable source of information to them.
I knew as soon as I heard about Quibi that it would fail. A few reasons:

- Mobile first short content has already been tried multiple times by the big players and failed to find a market fit. The only one who has succeeded is YouTube, and they're free.

- Original content only. You can't start a streaming service with just original content. You need a library of content, which means licensing existing content, or having a library already (HBOMax, CBS All Access, Peacock, etc. all have back catalogs from their parent companies).

- Meg Whitman. I worked for Meg at eBay/PayPal. She was brilliant. But her expertise is growing a successful enterprise, not coming from behind. Look at her two main gigs -- eBay/PayPal, where she came into an already profitable enterprise and made it explode, and HPE, where she came into a failing enterprise and made it worse.
> I think school bullying may be a product of Anglo-Saxxon culture, which is very individualistic, success oriented (i.e. if you're a "loser" you're barely a human being) and also kind of heartless.

That is rather refuted by the rather notorious bullying in Japan, which is about as far away from individualistic culture as you can get.