skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The LEGO Contraptions book is great! About six or so years ago I got it for my 12yo son, and I honestly had as much or more fun with it than he did. I had never played with gears, so learning how they interacted and how the ratios worked, was enlightening to me. I ended up buying a set of LEGO Technic Idea books [1], then a massive crane set with motors, etc. just to keep playing with it all. Seriously, the amount of money I spent as a result of that one book is obscene.

1. https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B01N9XHU2M/
Heroku Incident – Impacting Common Runtimes in US
Yeah, but that is a monopoly for the publishers dealing with Steam, not for gamers which don't care as long as it is not broken.

Like Walmart or Amazon, the problem is for devs, not customers.
In a state of nature, others can slap your speech right out of your mouth.
People are fit because they don't like being not fit. Except it isn't true.

I do not see a meaningful difference between taking actions to become fit and choosing stances that are polarized, therefore that would imply this is not a tautology.
If I had to rank them, I would agree that David Duke and Richard Spencer are a little more blatantly racist than Stefan Molyneux, but why does that matter? If they're all violating the hate speech policy, then they should all be banned, even if David Duke is violating it more.
Chromium will easily take 5 or 6 hours for a clean build on a good professional workstation (i7/i9/low end xeon, 32-64GB RAM, nvme ssd).
appears not to just be me: https://downdetector.com/status/heroku/
What would happen if these platforms simply decided to migrate in a different country?
> dictating things like leap seconds

Leap seconds have nothing to do with GPS. They're an artefact caused by a desire to reconcile two things humans sort of intuitively assumed were tied together but aren't.

We set our day (24 hours, 86400 seconds) based on roughly how long the planet Earth takes to rotate. If it was a little slower or a little faster we could just have adjusted the second to fix that back in the 20th century. Not very palatable to modern physicists but it could have been done.

But it isn't just a little slower, or a little faster. It's both. Varying from one day to the next, unlike a good clock, the Earth doesn't keep time very well from one day to the next. This adds up over time. It might gain half a second one year, then lose 0.1 seconds the next year. One approach would be to decide we don't care. Clock just tick forward monotonically, the Earth is a little faster or slower, nobody needs to care.

Unfortunately astronomers care. They really want one calendar day to match one Earth rotation for their convenience.

And so now instead of the monitoring of the rotation being just something a handful of specialists care about, it drives the creation of "Leap seconds" to make up for our planet being slower or faster over a period of years by adjusting UTC by one second at notified intervals compared to the TAI.
GNSS constellations do not use geostationary satellites.
Reddit is turning into a far left hive mind. The Donald subreddit created their own website [1], which is a far right hive mind.

[1] https://theDonald.win
Years ago I bought this by mistake thinking it was a murder mystery. 50 pages in and I was really confused... good writing but no sign of a mystery. Reread the back cover more carefully and the penny dropped.
Aka, I'll hitch my political wagon to any passing train as long as it gets me there.
> There was no git in the 90's when KDE started

There was no Subversion when KDE started. Like most projects of its era, KDE started with CVS, and moved to Subversion in 2005.
> Reddit is trying to enforce its rules and maintain reasonable standards

From Reddit:

https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/rules-reporting/acc...

> Marginalized or vulnerable groups include, but are not limited to, groups based on their actual and perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or disability. These include victims of a major violent event and their families.

> While the rule on hate protects such groups, it does not protect all groups or all forms of identity. For example, the rule does not protect groups of people who are in the majority or who promote such attacks of hate.
Show HN: Tiny scheduled AWS Billing reporting to Slack
Not sure why people would down vote you - these are private companies we are talking about and they can do what they want I suppose. However I think the real rub here, that people seem to to have a hard time expressing, is that these platforms are blatantly hypocritical in what they allow or don't allow.
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This is a growing affirmation from all around to tell you do what you are good at, while you are actually just mediocre and trying to figure out what you want to do.

What's life when we don't try new things and live like flowing water. Competence is a sham.
Free speech... only if you are "woke".
Building services for user facing applications. Banks have multi tiered architecture. They have back-end services (transactions, batch jobs, risk, calculations, analytics etc) these would be written in mostly in Java/Python/Scala/C#/C++. You might have situation where there is multiple systems processing same transactions overnight. Banks also have quite a lot of user facing applications, most of these now use React/Angular but data fed to it will not be coming from same services that process transactions(security and ease of maintenance). You will but another service just for frontend application that access back-end services via limited API or event queue.

Keep in mind that there is also plenty of systems that are older than me and have massive teams. Banks are mixed bag. You can work in amazing cutting edge project or maintain project in dead language.
Did you edit this after posting?
Why is everyone making surprised pickachu face about white nationalism as our culture encourages black nationalism and every other kind of racial tribalism? The problem isn't the color, the problem is the nationalism.
A purge of white supremacists sounds great to me.
Reddit's New Policy on “Promoting Hate Based on Identity or Vulnerability”
That's fair. Does npm have a way to declare build vs runtime dependencies? That would at least let you qualify that kind of thing (although only somewhat). (Sorry if this is a noob question; I'm interested in package managers, but I've never meaningfully worked with NPM specifically, so I don't know some of the local context.)

EDIT: Looks like that's devDependencies? So we can at least sometimes prune the runtime dependencies, which is nice.

EDIT2: Actually reading more I'm not sure devDependencies is quite that same, although it's similar.
I think the point that GP made doesn’t have any equivalence in US two party system.

The person in question really did start a new party that was not coupled with any of the existing parties and won the capital state with crushing majority.

That is a sign of a working democracy in my book. I am not sure if US is one of the better version of a well functioning democracy given its two party system. I recall that it was one of the things that the founding fathers were afraid of when they were debating the constitution.
Neither does TikTok proper, and those two are in close & opaque cooperation with the US government.
>>>The only thing that the first amendment provides you with is freedom from prosecution by the government for statements you make

>I agreed with you until this point. You seem to make the common miskate many "but it is private company" people make.

Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 484 U.S. 260 (1988).

Would disagree with your statement
https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-a...
"Hard thing about hard things" was a much better book for me. This sequel is mostly the same as what you get out of the articles for the book promo.
I find it a little weird to mix applications and libraries in the same list. But if libraries are considered, I would definitely nominate Hibernate: the most powerful ORM out there accross all languages, and it's been a must grab for any of my projects for almost 2 decades.
We are in the process of moving back to our home town of Eau Claire, WI from Minneapolis. Doubling our apartment space for $500 less. It's only 90 mins away from the city, so when we need an international airport again, it's still close.

Eau Claire is a beautiful city with a ton of outdoors activities, and endless biking/running trails. For a town of it's size, the restaurant scene is also quite diverse. We only did a few years in MPLS, and while I did like a lot of it, I couldn't stand not being able to go anywhere with it being absolutely packed.
Cool. Thanks. Was wondering if it was something intrinsic to the logging system. I find Console a little easier to explore in, but the log command much better for most things beyond that.

I suppose it might be ripe for wrapping with a TUI that can help with predicates and options...
It's a free society. If you don't like someone else's house party, build your own. thedonald.win is one such thing.
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It sounds like the key promise of solid state batteries is shorter charge times (10x better according to [1]).

[1] https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/hybrid-electric/news/a...
It's not about GitHub, it's interesting that they move from Phabricator(?) to GitLab.
There was plenty of bullying in my middle school in Russia in the nineties. Hell, there's a 1983 Soviet movie about bullying.

Any kid that was weird and had no "redeeming" qualities (strength or wealth) was likely to be bullied. Don't tell me your class was one big happy family and that you didn't have that one kid that no one cared about.
I love a happy ending.
This is not directly related, but I saw the policy:
"videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status"

I'm curious if anyone know the root of "veteran" on this list? I am just not familiar with that kind of -ism (veteran-ism?).
> Those were IRL things that happened before people had computers in their homes. We're talking about modern-day web forums.

The internet is an IRL thing, and these things also happened before electric cars. Unless you have some reason to think people's reaction to the truth is somehow fundamentally different on the internet than on TV or newspaper, I really don't see what your point is.

> How effective has "confronting fascism with the truth" ever been, when the fascist is not being upfront about it, but rather posting hundreds of subtly racist memes and dog whistles to reddit?

Is there a reason you can't post memes with the truth? Anti-racist memes work just fine. In a similar vein, infographics have been extremely effective. The internet is one of the best tools for spreading the truth in existence.

Subtly racist memes and dog whistles are created by censorship. If a person believed "black people are criminals" without censorship, they wouldn't bother with dog whistles, they would just say, "black people are criminals". How effective do you really think censorship is if the entire point of subtlety and dog whistles is to get around censorship? And if someone says "Black people are criminals", I can respond with, "While black people are convicted of crimes at a higher per-capita rate than white people, this is a result of poverty: black people and white people at similar income levels commit similar numbers of crimes."

What do you do when someone posts a subtly racist meme that hints that black people commit more crimes? Censor harder? The solution you're proposing takes us to a place where racists just agree on what codewords mean what in their own private spaces, say whatever they want in public using their secret codewords, and call us crazy if we figure it out and censor them.
Except, again, this doesn't happen on other large left-leaning forums at Reddit. When was the last time /r/twoxchromosomes brigaded the voting at /r/news to attack an inconvenient story? When was the last time a mod on /r/relationships was banned for hate speech?
On getting everyone the love they deserve
You should do some research on their involvement with debt traps and taking over foreign land.
Try mouth taping. I suggest 3m Micropore tape.

My nose gets clogged sometimes but when you force yourself to breathe through your nose, your body tries to accommodate and opens it up. It will feel weird in the first week but you'll get used to it.

I'd skip breathe right and go straight to tape! I tried breathe right but I was still mouth breathing.

I started with https://somnifix.com/products/mouth-strips-snoring-sleep-aid – they have a tiny cut in the tape that allows some airflow; but it got too costly and wasteful so I moved to 3M's Micropore.
Link is a 404, which does note bode well for humanity.
> It's that only a minority has a final say on who gets censored.

Not passing judgement either way, just asking: are there any circumstances or platforms in which this ISN'T true?
With recent developments, even during covid we can see that trump visit is paying off. And India is officially trump ally.
No they weren't. The admins kept the original mods and were trying to work with them.

The admins even said as much when explaining the ban.
The comment tree was about "white nationalism", which is definitely commonly understood to mean "wants a white ethnostate".
NASA Scientist Simulates Sunsets on Other Worlds
Git is a version control system, whereas Gitlab/Github are source-code hosting applications. You use git to interact with Gitlab/Github.

Without going too in-depth, they allow teams to set up accounts on a central website, where team members can contribute to that central git repository. There are also other project-management features baked into the tool (code review, issue tracking, etc).

Of course, this can all be done using a bare git server running on some publicly-available computer, but they offer nice UIs and very friendly onboarding so that makes them attractive for teams.
Kinsa smart thermometers identify atypical-fever trends
Not a ton of Rust in firefox yet.
This.

Why must every single posting on Hacker News that involves China be flooded with whataboutism? It's a recurring thing, not even subtle.
Extensive discussion 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23553974
They say that stuff, but the underlying politics is just neoliberalism. Same with Mr. Gab, here. Neither threatens anything.
Possibly, but the Virtual Boy was announced in Nov 1994 and demoed at the start of 1995 - so a very short period for development if they were still debating the processor during 1994. Maybe Nintendo were concerned about code size given their experience with VB and that led to the challenge to the ARM team?

Plus seems like the GBA was paused for a while in the 1990s too.
We're that much better at it that the masses think there are different sides. At the top, it's all the same.
YouTube radicalization is a myth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4hq5uVsb5k
Doesn't the concept of freedom of speech necessitate the freedom from speech, ie. the right to remain silent? To force a company to say something they don't want to is in my opinion worse than allowing them to say nothing. I don't expect Breitbart to voice my opinions, for instance, and I don't expect Twitter to voice theirs if they don't want to.
Are they true or false though?

> The second states clearly that Iraqi people would not be capable of forming a just society due to "low IQ"

Most people who've investigated IQ between different populations find east asians to have the highest IQs, which would contravene the concept of white supremacy entirely.

Maybe the science is bad - there's certainly some historical basis to that. On the other hands it seems strange that differences between populations somehow don't extend to the brain. But if it's true, then that reality is not good nor bad. It just /is/.
This appears to be coordinated election interference from tech monopolists.
Mercator Projection
> Apparently they're going to ban a large number of subs on Monday and frame it as an anti-racism initiative

Has this been announced or was this just speculation?
Great job refuting your own point. QQ is owned by the same parent company as WeChat (Tencent). Tencent is also implementing the Chinese Social Credit Score system, and so in my humble opinion, is the tech arm of the chinese government.
Fair question, you shouldn't be getting downvoted for it imo.

Larger projects need a way to collect bug reports, feature requests, maintain documentation, and set up milestones and release schedules, at a minimum. Ideally you want all of this integrated into your vcs, so that when a developer decides to push a commit related to a specific bug or feature request, that commit gets attached to that bug or feature request.

When these are set up and run well, they are very powerful for mid-to-larger organizations.
Pdf: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3392717.3392754
YouTube's algorithm suppresses LGBTQ content more than usual which is something that most people agree shouldn't be suppressed. At the same time, I don't think it's because advertisers want to suppress the content. I just think it's a bug with YouTube's algorithm.
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I listened to some of Molyneux podcasts awhile back. He seemed very gray area, borderline white nationalist, almost consciously ambiguous with just enough plausible deniability. It was a little too close for comfort and I took him off my list.

That said, I don’t think it’s fair to lump him in with folks like Spencer and Duke. I don’t agree with Moleyneux’s viewpoints but think he articulates them well enough that he should be refuted, not scrubbed from existence.
I know it was insane. But I also think /r/politics is insane.
You can't discriminate against someone for having served in the military in the US. Someone who served in the military is a veteran.

Also, the phrasing of their policy is strange. Apparently you can argue all you want that racial group X is inferior all you want, but if you don't try to exclude them from something, that is okay.
I think veterans are considered a suspect class & there exists legislation protecting against discrimination.
This is why you never give into the mob, even when their point is a good one. That's how individual rights are lost to the collective.
Can you point to some of that reading? Pedantically, that goes against the definition of IQ, where 100 is always average so it can't really increase over time, but your general point about people getting smarter doesn't intuitively make sense to me. Obviously we have more knowledge and resources to build on today, but I've never seen any reason to believe modern humans are smarter from birth than humans born 300 years ago.
events of r/askreddit offer possible insight, some months ago someone posted a question similar to "Trump voters that will not vote for Trump again, what was the last drop?" and it became a huge post, soon after the same question was posted again by only changing Trump to Biden (in true r/askreddit fashion where popular questions are milked to death). Only one of them was removed by moderators.

A political discussion forum can be neutral in allowing equal participation to different political position. People are not asking reddit userbase to be neutral in their voting, they are asking reddit moderators to be neutral in how they enforce policies/rules.
I'm not sure what you are watching, but I have never been funneled to anything even remotely like that.

YT sends you videos based on your watch history. If you watch hate videos to see what kind of stuff people are saying then you should delete them from your history to avoid YT finding you more.
https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/updat...
How coincidental! Surely I am to think nothing of it. Hey, let's talk about COVID-19 real quick ...
People doing political things you don't like is not election interference, anymore than some billionaire bankrolling right-wing SuperPACs is election interference.

Elections aren't held in a vaccum. People 'interfere' with them by persuading, spending money, and by choosing to give political ideas access to their platform.

Media agencies 'interfere' with elections all the time, by exercising their discretion for the last point, and by actively agitating on the first point.

And why would de-platforming racist white nationalists interfere with the election, anyways? Is there a racist white nationalist on the ballot in 2020, who will be hurt by this?
parler supports free speech, tho, right?

except they're banning liberals:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200627/23551144803/as-pr...
I'm not an expert on the issue, but that's a good number.

The original article states it's a cycle life of 1000 charges, that means full charges, say charging from 90% to 100% doesn't count as a full charge. These batteries are tested with 0->100 charges, but other factors affect battery life, like temperature and charging rate. After the 1000 cycles the battery isn't dead, it will just hold partial charge, basically degrading partially over time each discharge. It's basically saying "After 1000 full charges, the battery will only retain 80% of the original battery capacity".

IIRC my pixel 3a has LiPo battery and is rated for 300 cycles and from what I can tell lithium ion usually has a cycle life of ~500.

edit: Adding link to original article https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-presents-groundbreak...
Well, the world should just accept morals of the tech workers in California.
A one billion market loss
Which BLM-related subreddit needs to be banned, and for which content? Can you link to it?
There is a strong association between free market principles and the principle of non-aggression.

Others advocate that it is acceptable to use violent aggressive force against people who do not conform to your opinion of how things should be governed.

Tell me where the problematic ethics are again?

(FWIW, I don't watch any of the people mentioned above and have only heard of the first, so I am not here to defend them or what they may have said. I'm only defending the Non-aggression principle, which implies that markets are free.)
Despite this, I believe PWAs will eventually win, and Apple will be forced to comply if they wish to stay relevant.

Their browser share dropped a little recently (https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share). If that continues, it'll certainly irk them!
The amount of data they harvest off the app is scary, but I wish we'd be just as strict with Google over it. It's like the industry is slowly moving towards limiting these things, or making this type of spying much more covert as new things become exposed like the clipboard thing that TikTok does on iOS I can only imagine it's just as bad on Android, to the point where it should be a permission on a per app basis.
It actually happened today. Check Reddit‘s /r/announcements for the official thread.
> 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.

You don't have to have consensus from advertisers to ban something. If an advertiser of significant enough size, or a block doing similar, threatens, YouTube will listen.

> 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.

You don't have to ban it, you just have to demonetize it and content creators will fall in line.

> Whereas there is a long litany of material banned from Chinese networks for obvious political reasons.

I really think you need to reckon with this. You speak a lot about hosting your own shit, but, as American hegemony crumbles, your consumption will meet road blocks.