skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in my 30s now, so moving back in with my parents is a no-go. If my partner and I were in real trouble they'd have no qualms about taking us in, but save for dire circumstances—it would pretty much be a last resort.

That said, we live downtown Toronto and it's been on my mind for some time to try and move out of the city. I love the city, but I grew up in a small rural town. I miss the green space. I miss the autonomy. And while I'm not much of a socialite, I do miss knowing my neighbours.

The churn in my building and the amount I see any familiar faces makes forming any relationships rare.

I'd been looking for a remote work option for a while, but since my current workplace has moved remote for the time being it's been rejuvenating the idea of moving away again.

Sadly, I've virtually been priced out of my home town. You get more bang for your buck than in the city, but the base pricing is about the same.

I've been taking time scouring for a viable option that wouldn't end up costing more necessarily. It's fun to dream, but it would definitely be nice to find some more concrete options.

It definitely seems more talked about around here than it used to be. We know people who've already made the move—even people I never would have expected to leave city life behind. Their whole personalities seemed built around it, and next I hear they've moved several hours away to a rural area—not even just the 'burbs.
I'm looking at the pipeline for smallish .NET Core Web App and the 6 projects build vary from 4-25sec each to build and with all the scaffolding it takes just under 5 minutes start-to-finish to produce binaries.
We don't have nuclear powered aircraft because the required shielding was too heavy. Both the US and the USSR tried in the 1950s and 1960s, but the only "successful" program was the Soviet Tu-95LAL which got around the problem by simply omitting most of the shielding, irradiating the crew.

Then the ICBM made the strategic bomber obsolete, and there was no incentive to sink any more money into nuclear-powered aircraft. Concern for safety had little to do with it, especially if you compare it to other occurrences at the time [1]. Now we can build autonomous vehicles that don't care about radiation and can make use of all that power, and that's exactly what Russia is doing.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accid...
Day before someone reported that on Monday Reddit was planning wave of censorship.

Follow reddit self-destruction here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/
There's no perfect answer here, because different people will have different reactions to whatever approach you take.

So what follows is just an opinion. I work at a large biotech company, and sometimes hire engineers. Personally, I would like to see an entry in your job list in appropriate chronological order, with a very brief explanation. Many people have to take a break, whether for raising children, caring for family, or dealing with health issues. As a hiring manager, a gap in your job history with an explanation like that is less concerning to me than a completely unexplained gap.

If you can truthfully indicate the issue is resolved and won't impact you in a future job, great; if not, just stop with the explanation of the gap.
we, non americans, think facebook is doing everything you describe and even worse.
This is funny, can you elaborate how come a ranking algorithm is a national security threat? It reminds me of the time when Google/FB/Instagram/Twitter still worked in China, Chinese govt used the same excuse to ban big tech social platforms.
http://archive.is/xcTny
I wonder how much they paid their branding agency for this name
Way back when r/the_donald just started when his campaign began, many people including me thought it was an ironic subreddit and treated it as such. Then suddenly Trump gained momentum and the subreddit turned out to be for real.
Yeah! I never understood why it was necessary to label these pins with more than just "data in" / "data out" anyway.
Just because it was “unheard” of didn’t mean it wasn’t happening in GenX. I don’t know if there’s a way to ever fully compare them but there are panics that accompany every new medium of communication.
Same reason the EU should ban Facebook and Google right?
Coordination with the US means jobs and economic opportunity for both sides. Coordination with China means gunfights and border tension.

It's pretty simple if you don't try to extrapolate everything to logical extrems. India and US is ally, India and China is rival. Full stop, it ends there. KISS
It’s funny, what I see is not politics but simple market effects. The truth is that most people value some level of moderation. Surprise! A cesspool of trolls does not provide for an inviting community.

I find it hilarious that we have congresspeople whining about being “censored” on the very platform they claim is censoring them. I would think the first step of a competent censor would be to censor complaints of censorship itself.
Covid vaccine approved for military use in China
I'm moving to move in with my significant other, but I've noticed rents taking a dip here in Toronto. Not sure how it is in SF, but here all buildings older than November 2018 are rent controlled - leading to good opportunities when rent dips, especially if you didn't have a great rate to begin with.

My SO and I "saved" around $400/month thanks to COVID - identical 2bd/2bth units to the one we got were renting for ~$3100/month pre-COVID, we got ours for $2700/month.
I agree that covid-19 symptoms are much worse than the flu, and that hospital ICUs sometimes strained to keep up with the number of cases. But ultimately the number of deaths has to be considered as a kind of ground truth.

On officials begging for ventilators: I did see NY state governor Cuomo's press conferences, where he complained about shortages of ventilators. I think that he is fascinating and charismatic. I would vote for him. But it's widely acknowledged that 80% of people on ventilators eventually die. Ventilators themselves may be deadly, at least for the kind of pulmonary edema that covid-19 causes. Much better survival rates have been reported by laying patients face down, with oxygen, and without forced ventilation. It's quite possible that some of the deadliness of this disease can be put down to misguided treatment protocols.

This disease is dramatic and sometimes deadly, but it's not the Spanish flu by any means. There has been a lot hysteria and over-reaction.
This fundamentally misunderstands why finance is there in the first place. It's not just about access to the euro zone, it's about hiding all that juicy money from [insert national/international authority]. The City is a weird place, not quite governed by the laws of the land as you think it might, and has repeatedly reinvented itself for over 1000 years to remain a pinnacle of 'success' in murky dealings. With that handy set of overseas dependencies to hide stuff in, The City will do just fine after Brexit.
no idea of the history, but it sounds like you're agreeing with chamath's take, despite whatever opinion you may have of him. just seems like he is guilty of the same behavior he's associating to facebook.

one quip:

> Apple is strict and super-weird about some of their rules, but they’re consistent. And it’s in that consistency that they’ve been able to build a large, dominant platform. When people start to see cracks in that consistency — such as the recent Hey drama — both developers AND people within the company immediately freak out, and some statement is made (whether it’s what the developers want to hear is another matter). They’re also super consistent with most of their APIs and their timetables, which further encourages investment.

As someone who has dabbled in app store development from time to time, none of this seems to be true. Apple is inconsistent with application of their rules and their rules are also internally inconsistent from case to case, especially with regards to what apps are allowed on the platform.

But there is something interesting in there -- was it the developer experience that drew developers to their platform originally or something else? Not sure offhand.
These are Geekbench 4 results which are not comparable to Geekbench 5
The reality is closer to

"Imagine if US.app and China.app were both spyware"

But India only banned the China spyware and left the US spyware roam free. If they truly cared about spyware, many other apps do similar stuff, scooping just as much data.
Is it scala slow ?
It won’t. This is just a PR move for large companies. It’s free ad space. Watch them all go back to spending $100k a day on FB ads in a couple of months time. Large companies have massive teams of experts for ad platforms and they are not going to lay them off just to prove a point.
The advantage of a PWA might be that it exists compared to the native equivalent that doesn't.

I'm interested in the many quirky apps and niche experiments made by people who won't or can't make cross platform native apps.

It's this stuff I care about. I don't care about whether you faang of choice chooses to go native or not.
I know something similar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
> Doesn't the fact that finding instances of violent rhetoric among alt-right posters, regardless of context, sorta make the case that maybe this is an endemic problem and not a purely political suppression?

No? Because in an anonymous online forum anyone can just hop in and drop a “... kill em all!” message and whoops, there goes your forum. It’s impossible to prevent, at best you can only react to it. You are completely at the mercy of admins as to whether or not they believe such content is “inherent” to your community, and surprise surprise, they do.
You are blaming India for things against Muslims while selectively ignoring China is imprisoning a couple of millions?

Lol
Flipper – Cross-Platform Native App Debugging from Facebook
Yet r/stupidpol has (so far) managed to survive, which was the original Chapo Trap House podcast subreddit.

edit/ There are quite a few actually disgusting subs that have managed to evade this ban, in addition to a few which I kind of expected to see banned that survived. There are also quite a few which are basically worse versions of a subreddit that was in the banwave which leads me to conclude that the Reddit admins simply don't know that they exist.
Yes, if you only focus on your one skill which you already have a high degree of competence in, you have a very low probablility to succeed; you would have to become the very top person in the world on that specific thing to actually succeed. Instead, you should probably try to combine your existing skill with other skills which complement the existing skill very well, as well as some other unusual but useful skills. That way, you have a large change of having a unique set of skills, which you can combine in ways which nobody else can do; this is highly probable to succeed, since you are then highly likely to be useful to many people.

This concept is usually called having a “Talent stack”; described, for instance, here:

https://www.stedavies.com/talent-stack/
Work on what you can't stop thinking about. You'll get good at that.
Great news for KDE and open source. Self-hosting with something like GitLab, Gitea, etc is still an option if you are dealing with an open-source project like GNOME, Xfce, etc. This allows you to control your data, source-code and the server if it goes down with the sys-admins to maintain it and you can still mirror your official repository from GitLab/Gitea to GitHub.

It isn't a good idea to 'centralise everything' [0] on a server or VM instance that you don't own, which is why self-hosting is better for companies and open-source projects than on GitHub.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22867803
I was the one who first requested that Doug join the ASF with Lucene. The rest is history... ;-)
Bought my first mechanical keyboard
That's a good perspective actually. I myself have been critical of University computer science programs for not teaching practical skills.

I always forget because I went to DePaul University which focus is on practical software development as opposed to making me take organic chem for no apparent reason.
The concern is the coordination between Chinese foreign affairs/security services and the commercial sector.

For US-based firms, that’s simply not the case.

Yes, YouTube needs to make sure Nike is happy. But Nike didn’t just kill two dozen Indian soldiers.

Certainly there’s privacy related concerns with US companies - as with Chinese companies. But nobody had accused the DoD of manipulating YouTube search rankings.

If the DoD wants to conduct a YouTube propaganda campaign, they can buy advertising like everybody else.
> when I go to a library looking for some fiction

That's my problem with libraries, other than university ones: they're massively biased towards fiction. Basically printed Netflix.

I don't consider my local library if I need to learn something or research science or history. It doesn't even have the shelf of encyclopedias that it did when I worked there as a student 30 years ago.
Woman seen coughing on California bartender who asked her to wear face mask
The average customer is not paying 1000$ for getting "protection from those risks", and it is that customer that drives the price, not the average user in HN.

And that is assuming they are trying to "protect you", but that is a different discussion.
Ask HN: Why do startups end up becoming 'corporate-like'
I have always been fascinated by the idea of (tech) startups. I always felt that startups are not just some other apples, but are a different fruit altogether. And one of the primary attractions in them is the culture- a bit informal, and yet hyper-productive; personal, and yet respectful; transparent and quite flat and approachable.

I get the point that if the startup goes on to expand like crazy and new people keep coming in (and leaving), there would emerge things like hierarchy, pointy-haired bosses, management and HR and what not.

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. when there seems to be no such need. To satisfy my curiosity, I'd ask the 'individuals' of the startup individually, and none would seem to like it or knows why 'they' are doing it, and yet they do it. Why does it happen then? Do startups feel good by mimicking big corporation cultures?
Well, except getting your money out of China is also very hard :)
Chapo Traphouse was banned. Do the numbers matter exactly? This one huge ban negates the point you were presumably trying to make.
Did they ban r/politics hate subreddit? No? Then it's not "banning hate", sorry Spez.
Nazi is pretty well defined, as are incel, redpill, boogaloo bois, etc. If you are part of one of those clubs and decide to exercise your right to free speech (which is your right), suffering the consequences should be expected. Consequences may include social sanctions and violent reactions. People react to speech. That's natural.
I was introduced to Flannery O'Connor 40 years ago by a black literature professor teaching a class of mostly male (I think we had one female in the class of ~50), mostly white engineering students who were mostly indifferent to the subject at hand. I have to admit, going in I was one of those engineering students who wasn't super excited to have to take a literature class. But then he had us read some of O'Connor's stories and discuss them. I was hooked. And I could also see what he was doing. He was trying to wake us up to our white privilege indirectly by letting Flannery do the talking. I could see that it made some of my fellow white male classmates a bit uncomfortable. Even a bit angry in some cases. He'd always say in this sonorous, deep voice "Gentlemen, in this class we're trying to see beyond the mundane issues of life." (with emphasis on "mundannnne") I ended up really enjoying that class. It couldn't have been easy to be a black adjunct professor of literature in an engineering school at that time. In a lot of ways I got the impression that he seemed to think we were shallow - and at that time and at our age (18, 19) we definitely were - and he was trying to expose us to stories that would shake us up some.

I felt not a little conflicted when I learned recently that the writer of these stories which seemed to be critiquing racism in very strong terms herself held racist views. Now we need to wrestle with that and this essay seems helpful.
> a quick search for "The only good Republican is a dead Republican" returns a lot of hits for the "[...] dead Democrat" quote and almost none for the search phrase

This is muddled by one particular incident with a video Trump posted. Searching the "democrats" phrase in quotes gives 160,000 results. Searching it with -trump -president gives only 4,000 results, and even then some (maybe most) of those results still seem to be about the incident (but spelling his name as "Dump" for example).

In my experience edgy calls for violence are indeed more common from the right than from the left, but this is a bad way to try to measure it.
On a phone so can't type at length but I actually agree with you on some of this.
Well what if your single one is taken offline? You need at least two, for redundancy :P
> includes cheating at games

That's not illegal. It's just not permissible on the services that run the games. Also, it used to be a thing in video gaming. (Game genie) For some reason, we've given up to video game companies who try to dictate how people should enjoy a product that they purchase.
In this case I think manhood means his gun, not his junk, but maybe I'm just getting old.
Because the Chinese government cannot directly alter the content and rankings in AliExpress to immediately spread out it's propaganda directly to easily impressionable teenagers in the form of audio visuals.
author left it ambiguous for effect
This is very interesting. Do you support Azure or even custom hosting?
Once the model is deployed do you monitor things besides performance? Such as I/O to the model, data drift, etc?
--The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly paradoxical idea that, "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance."--

The problem then becomes how you determine what is considered intolerance, or more importantly who you let dictate what is considered intolerance.
Yeah, I've always thought blogs that didn't render to static pages were just sorta silly - for just a few hits a day, it's very simple, and if you get a flood of traffic, even a small vps could keep up.
could you link the report?
Never intended for this to mean it was easy or anything. As you noted already it isn’t always. However this also admits it can be done as I mentioned too.

You can’t pass legislation that makes another government open itself up to transparency though. That’s the fundamental difference
I will also note that leaving technical information in dialog boxes is better even for non-technical "end" users, as it isn't like the app worked anyway (so the user isn't satisfied right now) and it allows those users to screenshot the dialog and show it to their friends or paste it to a forum and have other people help them (which I have seen people do constantly with my error messages, into which I always provide the most low-level raw/useful technically information I can about the error).
Then change the expectations. Native apps aren't much better as far as privacy goes. Users should absolutely verify everything they use.
Exactly. This is about making sure web apps are not as powerful as native apps.

One thing is the revenue generated by the App Store but suppose JavaScript web apps were just as powerful and well integrated as native apps; then why use native apps at all? Why have an App Store at all? Why have a Mac or an iPhone if any device with a modern web browser would do?

When Huawei tried to create their alternative to Android. The big thing missing wasn't the hardware or the operation system. It was the App Store with your map app, your banking app, your scooter app and so on.

The App Store and the proprietary development platforms for Android and Apple has become a way to keep their duopoly in place.
I can agree that allowing alternate clients is a step further than what Tiktok provides, but alternate clients are still piping your data into their vacuum.
I can't help but hear "We've bought the wrong satellites" in Peter Sallis's voice:

"Woah! It's the wrong satellites Grommit, and they've gone wrong!"
PWA's or web experiences are "good enough".

I would never use a social network native app, ever, as the category has a history of abusing privacy, poorly utilizing resources or any number of other things.

For business, it's a much easier decision. If I can do what I need to do in a PWA, why futz around with iOS, Windows variants, and multiple versions of Android apps? App Stores are a much bigger PITA than shipping web code, and I don't have the time, budget or care to make a polished user experience for employees.
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>Decades after the last case went cold, investigators announced in 2018 that DNA led them to a break in the case. Detectives submitted the killer's DNA to an open-source genealogy website called GEDmatch, where it found a hit with a DeAngelo relative who used the service. Detectives were then able to narrow their list of suspects, eventually arresting DeAngelo after a covertly obtained sample from his trash matched the DNA that linked so many crime scenes.

>Left alone in the interrogation room, Sacramento County Deputy District Attorney Thienvu Ho said DeAngelo began to talk to himself.

>"I did all that," he allegedly said.

Annoying article headline makes it sound like he just turned himself in and confessed.. at least that's how I read it. But it was really a DNA match that they brought him in and THEN he confessed.

Crazy to get that match 30 years later!
I'm not sure where the industry is at these days, to be honest. So as far as I know all LE devices use the GATT profile (though I wonder about headphones). The LE spec includes HOGP (HID over GATT Profile) which defines a set of services and characteristics for LE HID devices. [1]

Older devices almost certainly use a Classic Bluetooth HID profile, but newer devices like the Apple Magic Keyboard are LE HOGP devices. It uses much less energy so IMO a battery-powered HID device would be pretty nutty to implement using Classic Bluetooth in this day and age.

Interestingly there's no concept of "pairing" in LE devices, just "bonding" (where previously derived keys are persisted and re-used as an optimization). All LE peripherals operate in promiscuous mode by default and vendors have to implement their own pairing system -- or piggyback off bonding.

[1] Warning PDF link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
That link doesn't say anything about hiring, and doesn't have any evidence on the top mods paid to "hired" the lower level mods. As for the sleeper mods being added by force, there were definitely warnings about them before, but then the whole sub is wiped out now. Very convenient to get rid of all the evidence.
Only if there really is love behind it. Otherwise, such a message is fraudulent.