skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a dumb email from the CEO because it makes the company look bad to the peers of employees. There are plenty of companies who don’t care about racism, they say the right things and move on changing nothing, allowing people who work there to still hold their heads high at dinner parties. However if you have to be the person who works at the place where the “CEO doesn’t care about racism” that’s a lot harder to do.

The winning move here is to say the right things with a somber face regardless of the strategy you intend to execute.
Expensive is an understatement - when Dynatrace is cheaper you know you have missed the mark.
> The reason amateur radio exists is because we follow the rules. It can all disappear overnight if you violate them.

As an American this sort of sentiment is absolutely depressing to see. It seems to be incredibly common in a number of areas - radio, flight, and chemistry, to list just a few. I can only hope access to unencumbered computers doesn't fall victim to the same.

WTF happened to our supposed ideal of freedom?
I'm using a Macross Plus Winamp skin for QMMP as I write this, so it was funny to read your comment...I got so sick of iTunes that a few years ago I went back to the old way. I wrote some scripts to select & generate playlists and bound the scripts to keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+Super+Media Keys. QMMP has been really solid.
Pretty cool, but don't forget, you can also have shortcuts and key combinations like C-r <KEY>, say "f" for Firefox :)
The headline does feel surprising but then it goes on to mention on the ground research that people who learn the language the "normal" way (i.e. from parents and the community) are the population in scope for the study.
Well, no, in huge repositories with lots of branches it's not. But this is true for Fossil as well. IIRC MSFT did a study with the Windows repository showing that a relational approach to VCS bloated the repository too much, and out of this grew the Bloom filter approach to speeding up with git blame/log.
> Well, if you have someone determined to go after someone else, the most nuanced approach is not going to get you much. The attacker just rephrases it as they wish.

They can do this but they no longer have plausible deniability, since they're attacking something that the other user has unambiguously disclaimed. They'll just look like a loser who is obviously not acting in good faith.
Tesla’s SA big battery just got 50% bigger after goals thanks to Autobidder
Not effective. Now you have “a history of” making this or that statement.
> Before American independence the British crown held slaves.

Well exactly. And it was a practice that continued for many, many years afterwards. Arguably the early US economy was mostly built upon slavery. All that wealth created by people forced into labour who received no compensation for their hard work, but instead just enriched the slave owners.

It's selective history to ignore this and pretend that America was some beautiful egalitarian society striving towards anti-slavery from the start, and that any slavery that remained was solely the fault of the British.

This should be a day of shame and dishonor, if we're not being selective about history.
Alone Together: What I have learned organizing a big concert in virtual reality
your project was very inspiring, thanks for making it!
yup, `sudo tinc -n %VPNNAME% invite %CLIENTNAME%` will generate an invite URL on the server side and `tinc join %INVITEURL%` will let you join it. It's definitely really easy now, but unfortunately it's being marked as a pre-release which sets tinc back a bit imho.

As for revocation, I have a similar setup and I agree. My worry is that in a theoretical situation an attacker could get access to a network and then spread his key to the entire network and there's little you can do about it. For personal use it's fine (I use it), but because of this, I would be vary of using Tinc for some sort of production use (although I've heard of people doing it). Even if it's a big IF since you need to actually have an access to a node to generate an invite, the attack surface is still there and there's no good way to undo it.
Basically every single thing someone does is “virtue signaling”. Even your use of that term is meant to indicate a certain set of conservative values.

I’m glad you were able to reclaim whatever historic signifiers of oppression you’re talking about. For Black people in the US, that oppression is still ongoing, and the developers at Twitter would rather avoid using terms with that baggage in the context of their work.
You actually believe using a virtualized system just for an SSH client is somehow preferable to a native application?

In WSL2 isn't that a full-blown VM with another kernel and all? To run an SSH client? shakes head in disbelief
Sounds like the ceremony would have been roughly a year after the first gulf war in 1991. Which also included a fair number of non-citizen US combatants. I met a lot of them during my 8 year service.

It's not clear to me what advantage that path offers, but I can say there are a lot of people that try it, specifically because they think it's an accelerated path to citizenship.
By coincidence I was just watching an 8 year old Teilifís na Gaeilge (TG4) program in which the protagonist attempts to travel the length and breadth of Ireland speaking only 'as Gaeilge'.

The scenes in which he attempts to get state-run tourist services to communicate with him in one of the official lanaguages of Ireland are painful. In particular his visit to the prison cell in which his grandmother (one of the 1916 revolutionaries) was incarcerated starts off badly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyll-bBZzyk
Crypto Mining Companies have already figured it out.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2020/05/21/ho...
If they go directly to the page, FB will still apply its filter to the posts in that group.

> there are no tools that don't require a person to fight medium.

Perhaps, but there are tools that don’t make it practically impossible to find out what your opponent actually tried to say to you. I have been in the situation multiple times of doing everything I can on FB to make sure I read everything that was written in a thread prior to responding but still failed. This is what I mean when I say FB is intent on it. The design makes it impossible, whether that was the aim or not.

Edited to add: It’s no surprise that this leads to greater “engagement,” but it is obviously counterproductive to actual debate.
> from a country that initially took some of the most draconian of measures when the virus surfaced.

If you had perfect quarantine for a month, you would eradicate the virus. If you had harsh measures for a period of time, then ended them in order to do some massive social event, I'm not sure why you would expect outcomes similar to if you had never had a lockdown. A harsh quarantine is a reset button. Places need a little time and a few outsiders in order to be reinfected and start the process again.
> I think they were referring to the War of 1812. A war the US lost

The outcome of history indicates the US won that war. Technically it was considered a stalemate. The US lost no territory, repelled a malevolent empire again, kept its economy & trade fully intact, and won numerous major battles throughout the war. In the following decades the US became an economic juggernaut, while the British Empire began to fade into the history books.

A supposedly mighty empire failed twice in less than 40 years to bring a small nation to its knees. Quite humiliating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

- "In 1813, the US won the Battle of Lake Erie, gaining control of the lake, and they defeated Tecumseh's Confederacy at the Battle of the Thames, defeating Britain's largest Native American ally, a primary war goal."

- "In 1814, the British burned Washington, but the US later repulsed British attempts to invade New York and Maryland, ending invasions from Canada into the northern and mid-Atlantic states."

- "Attempts to smother American maritime trade failed, however, and soon both sides began to desire peace."

- "In early 1815, after a peace treaty had been signed, but before this news had reached the Americas, the US defeated the British Army near New Orleans, Louisiana."

- "Peace negotiations began in August 1814, and the Treaty of Ghent was signed on December 24, 1814. News of the peace finally reached America in February 1815 about the same time as news of the victory at New Orleans. The Americans triumphantly celebrated the restoration of their national honor, leading to the collapse of anti-war sentiment and the beginning of the Era of Good Feelings, a period of national unity. The treaty was unanimously ratified by the US Senate on February 17, 1815, ending the war with no boundary changes"
Thanks for including it in your list! You’ve done a great job collecting so many of them. We have a Discord with a few people interested in this type of thing. You can find a link in the Webamp readme if you are interested
Learning a language is a skill; it’s been shown that you learn your second foreign language much easier than your first. Teaching students a years worth of Latin and then transitioning to another living language is actually a fairly effective teaching strategy.
Ask HN: Raspberry Pi for encrypting calls from my phone?
How can I build raspberry pi that will encrypt calls on my phone (say lets VoIP calls, as cellular ones are harder but still an option). The rasp Pi would need to be connected in-between my earphones and my iPhone. There seems to be a product that tried to do this and launched on kickstart but they seem defunct now (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/620001568/jackpair-safeguard-your-phone-conversation). I cant seem to figure it out whether theyre defunct because of lack of demand or due to product not working well.
You must be confusing me with another commenter. I specifically said: “complaining about masks interfering with their breathing.”
Would those be a gasoline powered blowers ? ( ͜ʖ)
The worst part is the spelling correction (or lack of a good one). However, that can be improved by installing the LanguageTool extension (Needs web access though) bringing it up to at least Word level, if not better.

Other than that I never had any issues with LibreOffice recently.
July 4th 2020 – Release Day for MaXX Desktop v2.1
I (author of Webamp) worked with the internet archive to archive ~50k Winamp skins. The collection even features Webamp integration is you can try them out in the browser. https://archive.org/details/winampskins
The definition of a language being “living” or “dead” is centered around native speakers.

I would bet that a tiny percentage of Gaelic duolingo learners will ever use it in conversation.
Before ranting David Mitchell would be wise to learn the difference between:

- Gallic == of, or pertaining to France

- Gaelic == the dialect of Irish spoken in Scotland

- An Gaeilge (or just 'Irish' seeing as he's an English speaker) == the dialect of Irish spoken in Ireland

Also, although I like David Mitchell's comedy (Peep Show in particular) I doubt that Scottish people are terribly interested in English people's opinions on whether their language should be destroyed. Still, it's probably good for the next independence referendum.
> Latin is dead

I know what you mean, but I've always found that such a curious expression. There's an unbroken line of native speakers being taught by other speakers from every person native in French, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Walloon, ... to a person speaking some variant of Latin. By that definition, every single language from more than a thousand years ago is dead.

It seems to me Latin is more alive than ever, with about a billion speakers, it's just that they don't all quite understand each other.
It would only work in situations that are not actually problems, like being confronted with a mob of reasonable people.
Underground hydrogen storage had the same issue as kinetic storage: it's geographically limited. It's not just a matter of scaling it up, it's also matter to implementing it in places without empty salt mines handy.

And as you point out, generating this hydrogen is nowhere near cost efficient. To put this in perspective, energy costs in the US average about $.10-$.20 per KWh [1]. You're literally talking about a 1,000x increase in the cost of electricity for hydrogen storage even if the rumors of "cheap" $200/KWh hydrogen production turn out to be true.

1. https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/

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> You are pointing to RETAIL electricity costs. Rookie error, man.

Elaborate on what you mean by emphasizing retail energy costs. That is the cost that customers pay for the electricity that is delivered to them. Some of this is subsidized, but this subsidy is not large. The US provides $3-5 subsidy per MWh of electricity. [2] Half a cent per KWh.

Even if we ignore subsidies, hundreds of dollars per kilowatt hour of hydrogen storage is still a factor of a thousand more expensive.

2. https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/policy/how-much-...
But, interestingly, almost no one in western Kansas is observing her order.
Are there any similar articles about Gaelic in Ireland? I'm curious where it stands as a language.
Routing a PCB is like constantly flipping your ruler around: Old, classic through-hole parts are in inches/mills, while new, modern surface-mount parts are in millimeters. All electrical aspects (traces, spacing, lengths) are measured in inches/mills, and often the mechanical aspects are measured in millimeters (if the enclosure is not made in the U.S.). And if you use the wrong system, you engineering tables and formula stops working, the whole thing is out-of-context (e.g. measuring the gap in a differential pair in millimeters, the number makes no sense), and an integer becomes a float with three significant digits after the decimal point.

So here is the joke: The electronics industry is moving towards the metric system, one mill at a time. At least CAD programs have a button to switch between the two instantly.
In other words, broad sweeping generalisations about a service’s users are not useful.
I use stadia on Linux just fine. You may want to check your chrome settings
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23731712
Dude, not even the people on the committee thought it was "brilliant." The language is ugly, wildly inconsistent, impossibly bloated, and encourages an antiquated and verbose style of code. There are reasonable reasons why it is the way it is, but only within the historical context.

I've written production CL code, and hated every second of it. Racket is much better designed, much more expressive, and encourages a better style of code.

There's a lot of reasons to use CL, but the brilliance (or rather lack thereof) of the language isn't one of them. CLOS is really the only good part of CL, but isn't even used in the base language!
All content on this site is submitted and commented upon by living, breathing humans with biases that make them human.
Yes. I regret it a little, but I worked in the industry having access to a lot of big software.

Piled up a bunker of Sgi machines, O2, Octane, Indigo, Indy, most very well equipped with the advanced memory and graphics options.

Alias, I-deas, Maya, Adobe, 3DS Max... Let's just say I could license most of that at will due to an error...

Learned a ton of high end skills that I benefit from today too. Great fun. And amazing demos. Putting those together was a total blast. People would get blown away using Showcase, the Sgi tools for video capture, audio, and Composer to mix, RIP, burn. This was mid 90's when most people were using Win 98, or maybe NT 3.5.1

Let's also say I got rid of said error (so don't ask) and gave the whole lot away to a 20 something me just itching for those same experiences. Those machines were well loved and used. Cool.

I needed a change away from that kind of computing as it went on the wane. Didn't want to look back.

But at the peak? I was very seriously productive on Irix. The Indigo Magic Desktop took everything I ever threw at it.

And one could flat out bury those machines with a heavy workload and still the UX was golden, responsive almost as if idle!

At one point, at some conference, the head scientist at Sgi said, "We turn compute problems into I/O problems."

How the machines performed showed that ethos off well, IMHO.

Honestly, today on say, Win 10, I can do all I did then on a laptop, but not enjoy it as much as I did that environment. It is responsive and fun!

Big software on Irix remains one of the peak computing experiences I have had. Damn good times.

I may have to put this on a Linux install and have some fun.

In my view, the Irix scheduler is insane good at balancing UX with workloads. It may not always be the peak possible throughput, but a skilled user can continue to blast through their tasks pretty much no matter what the OS load is.

On a lark, I got to try an extreme example of that:

Irix 5.3 on an Indigo Elan, 30Mhz CPU. I forget which one. I want to say R3k. (Check Ian's SGI Depot for more info)

I compiled "amp", which is an optimized mp3 player that formed the basis of many players after it was written.

At 30 Mhz, that Indigo Elan could play up to 192Mbps mp3 files, over NFS, while the desktop remained responsive.

At 256Mbps, CPU load was about 95 percent. Would glitch on occasion.

I found that quite impressive personally. I used that little Elan as a X terminal for a while and it was a pleasure to use.

...ah, Sgi.

Damn. Say what you want, their stuff was fun, had amazing docs, and got work done.

[Looks at Android / Win 10]

Meh.

That's part of why I scaled down. Unloaded that gear and went small, embedded retro for my fun computing. The work is easier today, and fine by me, because it is just work.
Possibly. I'm trying to get you to stop doing this, however. One can hope that we can talk without repeating endless cliches. If it doesn't work, then we've all paid the cost and gained nothing. If it works, I've paid the cost this time and we never have to pay it in the future.

Alternatively, I'm working with a friend on a way for me to browse HN without encountering these.
Personal anecdote: I have had the privilege of meeting a person teaching Gaelic as a second language. I think we can still learn a lot of nuances of expression from dying (or dead) languages and they will always provide us with insights for those willing to learn.

That said, I think there is no artificial way in preventing a language from dying. If everybody in your neighbourhood speeks a different language then it's near impossible to cling to a different language.
Show HN: Realtime Covid-19 data through the command line
I never had the chance to take Latin in school, but I became interested in historical languages later in life (I’ve self-studied middle egyptian, neo-Babylonian, and Greek) and found the following book to be very helpful.

Understanding Language: A Guide for Beginning Students of Greek and Latin

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0813218667/
Perhaps they just use Twilio, which already supports WhatsApp integration.
In other words: self-censor. Sorry not my style.

I believe you have good points about keeping your work and personal lives as separate as possible and I believe your advice is very pragmatic. I don't, however, think it should be necessary nor is it realistic. Let's all go into sterile work environments for 8+ hours a day where we have to self-censor based solely on observations of how other people fucked up and angered the mob. Let's never celebrate each other's humanity at work in case they accidentally "twitch the wrong way", as you put it. Let's all just sand in line, the oppressed among us silent and powerless because they've been told they have no voice.

In reality, people's work is important and meaningful to them. People need the freedom to express themselves without having to calculate whether it's worth finding a new job tomorrow because a mob sniffed them out.
Assume the average covid patient had 10 years left to live, and the average unemployment suicide had 65 years left to live. If we've had 130K covid deaths, and we arbitrarily say that whatever lockdown measures you think were excessive cut covid deaths by a third - are you postulating 10K excess suicides in the last 4 months?
Don't forget org-roam!!

I swear all these other folks trying tool x, y, z are only doing so because they haven't found org. It's a bit cryptic to get started but totally worth the effort.
You might as well teach multiple living languages. Using a dead to teach language learning is a waste of a good opportunity.
If there's anyone out there who wants to earn money from advertising there are two words you need to be aware of:

"BRAND SAFETY"

No well known advertiser wants their brand associated with something unpopular or toxic. This is why YouTube is demonetising any video that mentions Covid-19. YouTube themselves technically probably don't care, but brand safety conscious advertisers certainly do, and so YouTube must too.

They've realised that Twitter and FB, and others, are currently toxic platforms. The discussion threads can be awful, driven by fascists on both the far-left and far-right of the political debate. They no longer want to buy this advertising space, it's too much of a reputational risk (I will say that advertisers outsource the buying of advertising space to Ad agencies who may not be as savvy since they're under pressure to spend allotted advertising budgets).

Hence the news about big brands pulling budgets from social media.

Another issue that I've never seen discussed is that if Twitter (and other social media platforms) relies completely on advertising revenue, it can be forced to only allow content that advertisers approve of. In other words, advertisers can in theory control political debate. Social media platforms then ban or remove content that's undesirable for advertisers because they can't monetise it.
Modern SSH of course does support certificates --- SSH certificates aren't X.509 --- which solve this problem, the key management problem, and the long-term SSH key hazmat problem. Probably, SSH certificates are what we should have been using all along.
I don’t see that quote as advocating for color–blindness. There is a difference between seeing the color of someone’s skin and judging them for it.

But if you adopt MLK’s views like this, can I take it that you then support reparations and civil unrest in response to racial oppression? That you think the biggest obstacle to racial justice are white moderates? That you oppose capitalism and support socialism?
Buying anything other than a minimal sedan, minivan, or small suv goes beyond practicality and into emotionality for most people. I don't see a big difference between owning a uselessly oversized truck, a luxury sedan, or a sports car. They are all bad for your wallet, and bad for the environment. I think that trucks are exceptional because people who can't afford them convince themselves that they "need" them.
I ran similar and built up some pretty big systems.

Some software, made on IRIX, like Alias and I-DEAS did show it all off. Other apps ran great, but did their own thing no matter what UNIX you were on. Then again, some of those interfaces were amazing in their own way. I would count CATIA R5 in that group for sure.
In the US we have "whipped butter" which (according to Wikipedia) is made spreadable by aerating it with nitrogen. I recall hearing that it isn't suitable for situations that require measuring because the volume is not the same. (But it does works well on bread or for greasing a pan.)
This is somewhat nonsensical, what are you trying to go for?

Why not just E2E-encapsulate a VoIP packet/connection?
Honestly, those won't compare.

It is the close marriage between IRIX and the hardware and top engineering that shines.
Aren't Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, etc "countries and empires in massive decline?" They've been in massive decline for several hundred years, but once were great (i.e., vast, large) empires.