skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool, I'm running a Matrix service like this myself but it's been a bit hit and miss. Keeping all those different bridges running over time is difficult. Especially the signal one is a real PITA, often contacts stop getting my messages from matrix while I still get theirs.

And Whatsapp requires whatsapp web so you need to keep the client running on your phone 24/7 or run it in an Android VM which is pretty heavy.

And finally the whole Matrix experience is a bit lacking IMO. It doesn't really do 1:1 chats so every time someone chats with you you get a 'room invite' from the bridge, which you have to accept, and all those old rooms stay forever cluttering up the system.

I wouldn't mind outsourcing all that work, but $10/month is a lot.. Good idea though! There's definitely a need for this, which is why I've been looking into it too. I'm just getting so sick of all these different chat apps screaming for attention all day, each with their own difficulties. Some don't work on the desktop, others only work on 1 client at a time. And each milking as much data as they can. Why can't people just stick to IRC :)
Systemd does not aim for POSIX compliance: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6259#issuecomment-...
Do you get the music or conversation too? Or vice-versa, from a song or topic back to a spot?
I'd be careful about statements about 'limitations of physics'. Yes, there are actual physical limitations, but we frequently have beliefs about the limitations of physics that are not actually limitations of physics.
Is it based on Electron? Because if it's not, you have my attention.
I'm probably conflating visual and spatial into one group here.
Phones are built for performance per watt. Phones are benchmarked. In the context of a discussion on Apple introducing ARM chips into the Macbook line, performance per watt is far more meaningful. For most users, battery life is the issue once minimum performance criteria have been met.

Will there be Razor laptops that last less than an hour on battery that can beat them? Sure.

Will there be people who complain that the Mac isn't fast enough when plugged in? Already happening: the recent Macbook Pros have had complaints about thermal throttling, that obviously slightly larger Dell with a decent fan doesn't have.

But Apple will build performance laptops, using ARM chips, and they will be faster than the equivalent Intel Macbooks if only because they aren't throttled.
He ain't holding it back. He's stalling it. He's the Stall-Man after all.
Nailed it.

The other problem cycle is “we’ll get JIRA right this time”. This is followed by happy clicky people immediately shafting it, at least two years of suffering and then some PM selling some new clothes to the emperor. Everything degrades this way. Even GitHub the moment someone adds workflow automation. Intent versus causality are two very different things.

My favourite problem is a JIRA instance that sets a resolution as incomplete immediately on a ticket, which is a valid resolution so all my tickets are closed as far as it’s concerned. Ugh.

I’m slowly working on an OSS replacement for all of this hell which is designed for inflexibility from an organisational perspective. It’ll be open source. I’m sure no one will use it because it’s inflexible.
Jeez, WTF. Looks like I have to buy a new tablet (my old one is on its last legs) before this shit hits the markets, no way I'm gonna have a device that is either not rootable at all or keeps me from using mobile banking.

I'm all for more security measures, but not at the cost of giving up my freedom entirely.
Is it really overcautious? I'd imagine a group in extreme isolation to be far more sensitive and prone to misinterpretations than the same set of people working together while surrounded by thousands of others to meet and interact with during off hours.
I don't like the constant UI changes, the ugly configuration menus, the new bar and the bundling of stuff nobody asked for like Pocket.
>how does it do any good to put her behind bars at all

The good it does is deterrence to the rest of the population. Or that's how authoritarians like to see these sorts of dis-proportionate punishments.
yes some people dont have to close their eyes.
Who's with me to start the Ron Swanson streaming channel? It'll have all the worthwhile channels: hunting, fishing, and woodworking.
The problem is that a bunch of entitled dipshits (encouraged by the idiots in the GOP--but being a dipshit, especially in Southern California, has more than its share of Democratic members) in California find it "Oh so inconvenient" to wear masks and stay home. California is the land of "Karen", after all.

Well, this is what you get. Had California actually followed the model of New York, it would have been mostly back to normal by September.
>...vital interests and the infrastructure we depend on is secure and that’s going to take a pragmatic approach.

I argue for letting these businesses fail, even if vital, because, it seems, the powers that be have forgotten to take care of them, regulate them, and not get captured by private interests, for decades now. Infrastructure across the the country is literally crumbling. Major dams have failed this year. I fully expect to suffer much more before those with the power to delegate resources where needed will find the will too.
It's not just heavy investment at their moment of need, it's also a habit of nurturing unlikely Plan B's for years and decades.

- When Apple founded ARM in 1990 with Acorn and VLSI, they didn't know that silly cacheless chip would become a world-beating juggernaut. But hey, as founders, they now have a license to mold the microarchitecture however they like.

- When Apple bought NeXT in 1997, they didn't know the sun was slowly setting on PowerPC. But they secretly nursed along the (already built) NeXTSTEP x86 port for years, until the time came to dust it off and start shipping product with Intel Inside.

- When Apple forked KHTML in 2001 and started building WebCore/WebKit, they didn't know that MS was about to leave Internet Explorer to wither on the vine, nor release the final Mac IE only 2 years later. But they quietly invested in building such a konquering (sorry!) product that (with Google/MS help) we're now at risk of an entirely different browser monoculture.
> Apple is now likely to deliver the kind of Arm-based machine Torvalds has been waiting for. ®

But the question is, will it run Linux® ?
so who should get to device which people are blatantly censored and silenced on what is basically public space?
All I see is how a certain corporation appears to benefit, as one of the largest employers in the country, by providing part-time employment to a portion of the absolutely massive pool of low-skilled, border-line unemployable labor which happens to exist in America today and which also happens to be subsidized by the government. I fail to see how those people would not otherwise need to be fully supported by the social welfare system if it were not for this employment, and I fail to see how it is Walmart's fault that there aren't other employers providing part-time jobs for these people to fill the gap. Maybe one could say they are taking advantage, but either way I don't see how this works as a counterpoint, or how it shows that "Capital" is draining on social welfare systems... Just the opposite.

In this scenario, in America, the reason a social welfare subsidy exists at all is because the supply of capital offered through jobs to low-skilled labor is smaller than the supply low-skilled people. Without this excess of low-skilled people, after all, there would be no need for such a subsidy.

From the perspective of the social welfare system, the part-time, low-skilled employment (capital) Walmart is able to provide to people who otherwise, ostensibly, would be unemployed actually reduces the burden (created by these people) on the welfare system. Without those part-time jobs, the subsidy these people would need in order to live would be even greater. No?

I guess your perspective is that somehow the social welfare system is subsidizing Walmart's labor force, and, if I'm being generous and give you the argument, that Walmart wouldn't be able to exist/profit without this low-skilled, part-time labor force, transferring the responsibility for the drain onto Walmart (Capital) NOT the people it ultimately supports, which, again, the system must support regardless of the existence of a Walmart or any other employer, so long as the people exist in the country? Is that about right?

How is the actual drain on the social welfare system not the oversupply of people? Would removing Walmart's capital improve the situation? Or is Walmart actually responsible for the increase in low-skilled labor, using its capital to demand mass immigration and creating the over-supply which they then take advantage of? Because if so, that wasn't explained when I googled "walmart subsidy."
> The vast majority of police are heroes.

Define "hero". As has been noted many, many times across HN these past few weeks, "police officer" isn't even among the top 15 most dangerous professions in America. And even then police aren't legally required to do their job[1]. Most police are never called upon to do anything heroic, so we can't say if they are heroes or not.

This type of blind veneration for police is weird and unhealthy. If you tell a child, or even an adult, they are great and perfect just for who they are, they're going to turn out spoiled rotten. Why do you think this is any different?

Police are regular people. Some good, some bad, but mostly mixed. The systems they work in allow the bad police to get away with horrific crimes and punish the good police who try to do anything about it.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...
I've been using omnifocus for several years, but recently moved all of my projects to Everdo[1].

1. https://everdo.net/
That's not really true anymore. Yubikeys haven't supported firmware modification for years due to security reasons, and FIDO2 keys often have storage in order to support Resident Keys.
Searching for "allow background activity", I see Android 8\Oreo has https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1367118-oreo-allow-backgr...

I am on Android 9\Pie, and from an app's settings, clicking 'battery', then clicking 'background restriction', I can choose from 'app can use battery in background' or 'restricted'.

But what I originally asking for control over is running at startup.

For example: go to an app like Lyft's settings, Permissions, then "..." in the top-right, and select "All permissions", finally towards the end of the list of all permissions is "run at startup". What I want is to enable\disable "run at startup".
Cancelling. Really really terrible to do this in the middle of a pandemic. Who cares about these extra channels?
There was a study on UK cycle commute accidents recently.

Commuters over several years who cycled, were 44% more likely to be hospitalised than other commuters.

However...! This cycling was associated with some quite dramatic health benefits. If 1000 people switched to cycling... The benefit would be 15 fewer cancers, four fewer heart attacks or stroke and three fewer deaths.

https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m336
The other important point to remember (on the topic of unintended consequences) is non profits are quite likely to be producing less in the way of useful resources than they consume. If a given community is quite poor, a likely contributing factor is that too many people are consuming more than they produce.

The subtext of the article seems to be 'the Internet Archive doesn't pay their employees very much and makes up for it by helping to organise their lives'. I respect that, no complaints, good work. But it would be better to read 'internet archive so profitable that its employees can afford a nice house & retirement savings'. Things that make profits are more robust and reliable.
Firefox is great. All I want from it now is to have tabs smaller than 50px and to have CSS property backdrop-filter finally enabled to have those niiiice blurred backgrounds.
> Piracy of songs, movies, and applications actually improves sales, according to a study that the European Union funded and then tried to keep from getting published:

I never understand this argument at all.

Piracy of X improves sales of X is only relevant if you're keeping the business model of selling X.

It's an argument for small amounts of piracy not substituting for market demand in a meaningful amount, and possibly spurring increased market demand.

It's not an argument for it not being stealing, or against having an IP legal framework at all. If you remove the ability to sell things, there will be no sales for it to spur.

Also, only the most extreme liberterian capitalists believe in capitalism without any commercial regulations whatsoever. Literally the bare minimum is property rights.
Decentralized TikTok?
Developers expected to submit some interesting projects now the internet computer is open
So where is a child supposed to go when their parents have died or been imprisoned? Should they just be homeless? What alternative do you envision?
The difference is that the water heater test itself was flawed in that it depended on arbitrary design decisions that have nothing to do with efficiency. Two completely innocent manufacturers could build water heaters with the exact same real-world efficiency, but score fairly differently on the efficiency ratings just due to how they're designed.

While I agree that this particular water heater manufacturer was doing something shady in order to get the best score, at least they weren't selling a product that did something differently while under test conditions vs. in real-world usage. They merely realized that the test itself had wide error bars, and designed their heater to "err" in the positive side of those.

VW, in contrast, sold a product that lied to the testers about its emissions in order to pass certifications, while in real-world driving would behave in a way that would not pass muster.

And to me I think that's the key: VW's cars intentionally behaved differently depending on if they were being tested or if they were being driven in normal real-world usage. This water heater behaved the same regardless of whether it was being tested or was heating water in someone's home.

In a way I think of this in academic terms. The water heater manufacturer studied the SAT to learn what kind of questions were going to be asked. VW stole the answer key to the test and memorized it.
> I'd agree with lockdown if it didn't mean draconian measures for uncertain rewards.

Erm, you have a quite concrete reward. New York (and the areas around it) is going to be mostly back to normal with some extra precautions by September.

The areas that didn't take this quite so seriously? Well, they're not going to have football season. Congratulations, folks.
“duxup” writes:<blockquote>Do people want to be on a platform where other folks on the same platform are targeting their community with dishonest and often bigoted content?</blockquote>Apparently, yes: Hundreds of millions of people are still on Facebook.
If something is beneficial for everyone involved, why should it be illegal?
Investigative journalism at its finest.
Copy of article (minus a graphic) available at:

https://geekly.co.uk/wirecards-real-business-relied-on-small...

One, among many, interesting bits:

> The German company appears to have an unusually lucrative relationship with a collection of almost 4,000 porn, dating and related customer service websites registered to 175 companies in the UK and Cyprus.

Pornographic websites in the network typically advertised three-day free trials, before charging $39.95 per month after that. Wirecard kept about 15 per cent of the transaction volumes generated by these customers in the first half of 2017, according to documents reviewed by the FT.

That compares with rates of about 3 per cent the German company charged larger porn purveyors, such as Luxembourg-based LiveJasmin and the US-controlled Chaturbate.

Charging such a high rate raises fresh questions about Wirecard’s compliance with anti-money laundering regulations.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5935320
Mozilla Common Voice Dataset: More data, more languages
You could submit a PR. And if you're commenting here instead because you know the change would not be accepted, well, there's your answer.

edit: Downvote away, but the fact that you can't simply correct the record might be a clue that the distinction between police brutality and "necessary riot control" is not as objective as you suppose it to be.
I don’t think it’s influenced by js: http://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf
That sounds like a workflow issue. Instead of arbitrarily renaming files, which is what we used to do back in the 90's, 80's and probably before, you could have used something like git to take care of backups and version control.

Of course it doesn't feel like the future when you are maintaining your code with something other than modern practices.
Pensions aren't truly criminal.
Seems coherent to me: you are not taking ownership of something without a contractual basis. It would I think constitute 'misuse of corporate assets' though.
When talking about the environment, I think it's useful to think about what remote work would mean at scale.

Non-profits in SF often work directly with vulnerable populations, take Larkin Street Youth Services, for example. their mission directly involves interacting with homeless youth on the streets. San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is basically a giant warehouse in SF.

Even if you do have no-profit work that can be done over Slack or Zoom, these are still people who'll commute to the beauty parlour, buy groceries at the farmers market, or visit the museum during the weekend - so there are still excess car trips while living in the suburbs versus the Sunset District.
Perhaps. But while Satoshi is clearly a genius. Give the guy a break, he’s not a fortune teller. Many current day protocols have improvements needed but that’s besides the point.
Work on your reading comprehension...

The card companies charge merchants for transactions. The merchants raise their prices to cover those transaction costs: For a very long time (and still, in a few places) it was against the card company's terms of service to have a card usage surcharge. A very few places now have 'cash discounts' or don't accept cards at all, but these are by far the exception. As a result, /everyone/ ends up paying for credit card rewards, even those who don't use credit cards.
I've never seen anything digestible on 4chan. How do people read it effectively?
http://archive.is/SH3EU
Exactly. Anti-copyright people love to claim the book author has a "monopoly." But it's only on their own book. Nothing stops someone else from writing a competing book. It's kind of like saying a car owner buys a "monopoly" by purchasing a car. Yeah, only the owner can drive a particular car, but that's not what the word means. Yet people persist with this phony gambit.
Firefly Aerospace uses rocket engine to light birthday candles
I wish there was a middle ground. A way I could archive around 10 TB for around $500. I'm basically stuck with using hard drives + frequent backups and ZFS scrubs. Which isn't such a bad setup, but I'd like to have something offline.

I've looked at M-Discs, but at ~$0.12 per gigabyte (for something completely non-rewritable), the price still isn't right.
Lua predates JavaScript by several years. Maybe you meant that JavaScript was influenced by Lua?
Nikola Tesla always thought that this was a side effect of a very serious disease he had as a child. That was probably due to him never meeting other people like him, though as some comments here show they certainly exist (I count myself among them).

Some people with this ability can draw what they imagine very well, while others are not good at all. I don't see an issue - even if you project some image on a blank piece of paper so people just have to trace it everybody won't have the same results.
>I recently opened a case of 32 2 TB drives shelved since 2010 or so. These are Hitachi Ultrastar drives, the more reliable drives by a large margin. However, 3 of these were dead.

HDDs can get contaminated by siloxanes or hydrocarbon vapours, the former can come from adhesive tape and turn into abrasive SiO2 particles on the head.

Only anecdata, but I used silicone 'covers' to protect a couple of backup HDDs in storage, and one failed within a year :(

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/trol/6/1/6_1_96/_pdf/-c...

Wonder if the helium filled drives would fare better in storage?
It’s pronounced “NEE-chuh”.
It looks the same, because he is the author of that page

https://github.com/adambard/learnxinyminutes-docs/commit/9b4...
This is the first time I've seen a nation's military being criticized for being against martial law. Author of the article is a bootlicker with no boots to lick.
As far as I know, no Canadian banks also operate stables. Perhaps in Alberta.
Fully self hosted is a requirement in my case. Letting an agent that's essentially externally controlled would be a hard sell in corporate environment.

In my case, I need very simple workflows that e.g. run Ansible playbooks, or do non-urgent monitoring, bookkeeping, and essentially trigger scripts. I usually need a single step - no serious need for a pipeline/workflow even. Cron job and manual triggering would be enough to cover the base usage (though git hook would be next on the list).

The more "convoluted" part that I'd want to see is a capability of jobs controlling themselves (e.g. job disabling itself or others on error), jobs as code, flexible notification system, and make it easy to deschedule/disable jobs in bulk, easy to extend with plugins.

Granted, Rundeck has most of what I need, but the implementation is Java, which also includes its SSH functionality.
1. It is unlikely the CPU is a serious bottleneck in many of those circumstances. Even if it takes a measurable amount of time, that does not mean a faster CPU will make a meaningful improvement, if even measurable improvement. If you think it will, try overclocking and measuring your gmail load times.

2. Like I said, in my experience Ryzen also competes just fine in single core. It just also decimates in multicore. I’d rather have some tasks run significantly faster than have some run very slightly faster. But that is disregarding the fact that not all tasks are the same and it does in fact win some categories. These CPU architectures are more divergent than usual for lately.

3. Things you think aren’t parallel are. Video games using modern graphics APIs are in fact able to exploit multicore CPUs. Browsers absolutely exploit multicore CPUs. Your system in general will exploit multicore CPUs so during general usage when you are doing more things and have more software running, single core performance will be hurt less. And so on.
It's frustrating that so few people argue on simulacrum level 1. (Reference: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fEX7G2N7CtmZQ3eB5/simulacra-...)

Moving the goalposts is bad arguing. Bad arguing is often due to bad-faith arguing; but good arguing is hard, so it's also often accidental. Yet, people equate pointing out flaws in an argument with accusations of intellectual dishonesty: it's been politicised.
That would be rather surprising, since Lua predates Javascript.
Breadth in what you think about and active attempts to connect seemingly disparate pieces of information. IMO, "abstract" refers to something that is a pattern which applies to many things. As opposed to "concrete", which refers to specifics about a specific domain.

And psychedelics tbh. There is a propensity of science that says that among other things, psychedelics improve your ability to connect what you know. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192...
The landing page seems to say that interactions take under 100ms. What computer did you measure this on?
The very article makes it clear that one thing he's trying to achieve is to sell his book.