skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no dissonance. A monopoly has the capacity to remove anyone from their platform with no real reprocussions, so that's what they do.

why don't you just stop using that service?

There are no real alternatives to YouTube that any real content creators are willing to move to, and there are still some users that I watch, so I download the videos and don't support the platform. I have my cake and eat it too, so to speak.
But Mint are too lazy to build their own packages so they use Ubuntu binaries that are installed as root, this is IMO a PR move and a hypocrisy, if you don't trust Canonical don't use Mint use Debian or some distribution that has the capacity to host and build their binaries.
This is exactly the reason why I made Layluh[0].

It gets rid of all of the ads on a video and removes most of the UI, so all you're left with is an iframe. Here's your video in Layluh[1].

[0]: https://www.layluh.com/features
[1]: https://www.layluh.com/watch?v=F_tkS4dvi8A
An ongoing misconception here is that academic journals only publish 'facts'

Not really.

They publish research articles. Depending on the field, and the field's philosophical perspective on the construction of knowledge, that can take differing forms. Those differing forms are not just valid but important. And understanding the differences is also, important. An article about medical treatment necessarily does different things and looks different than a journal in the humanities (for example). They make meaning from information in different ways - and that is what all forms of research do, make meaning. Research at its core is not about the discovery of facts...this is basic philosophy of science, basic Thomas Kuhn. Standards like replicability may be of use for making meaning in some fields, but they are not necessarily equally useful in others, often because the level of contextual situating that needs to occur reaches towards the impossible.

Serious members of the field would not have taken the Grievance Studies articles as 'capital-F-FACT' they instead would have interpreted it as a perspective, an argument, an interpretation. Specifically, the entire field of critical studies exists to, in varying forms, critique the ways in which 'discovery of facts' is a reductivist way of looking at meaning making that privileges certain perspectives over others - by treating some perspectives as reality.

So the critique here, and looking back at Sokal, isn't that 'hahaha I pulled one over on you' its that 'we assumed that you were giving us a new perspective in good faith that we could collectively learn from' and ...'now you are standing here laughing at us because you acted like a jerk.' It's two different world views with one willing to be open (by choice) to outside critique and perspectives, and the other supremely self-confident that critique and perspective is unnecessary.

In effect, it's like a legal opinion that separates matters of interpreting law and matters of finding fact.
Even today, when there is essentially no utilitarian travel by ocean liner, a transatlantic crossing in a balcony room on the QM2 is $800. An economy flight from new york to paris on Air France is $849. First class is $9,262.
Totally in agreement with you, especially in the bigger metropolitan areas like NYC and SF.

Rule of thumb for me in my career is I expect at least a 5% raise yearly to account for cost of living and inflation of currency, otherwise, like you said, you'd be losing money YoY.

Thankfully, I've gotten many > 25% raises throughout my career. It's possible, but it's rare, and jumping jobs usually gives larger pay bumps.
Oh yeah! There are any number of other issues here. But I think there are mitigating factors for many of them.

It's the issue of saying he went to a dog park and observed and recorded dog behavior when he never did anything of the kind that really bothers me.
Having lived quite long enough on the Continent (in multiple continental countries) to know otherwise, this is obviously not true.

At very least English families have more in common with German families than German families do with Italian or Spanish families.

But it's moot: because family structure across civility is not fundamentally different with respect to the antagonising view of BLM.

Aside from some degree of intergenerational cohabitation, it's not that different in advanced countries.

The BLM statement with respect to family is unfounded bigotry, specifically created to concretise and define the image of their enemy.

It's very similar to Trump specifically trying to use the term 'Wuhan Virus' so as to invoke 'blame' for the virus on China. There is a 'kernel of truth' to complicity in China - in that China did some very bad things during the early phase of the pandemic, but that doesn't justify the use of this kind of language to blame them for the entirety of the problem. The language he uses here is to provoke - and to shift blame for the inadequacies of his own system, using crude language mapped onto an external group. When in doubt, use xenophobia.

BLM attacking the 'Western Family Unit' is shifting the narrative and denying any responsibility for a very foundational problem within the community - and that is >50% of Black children have little no relationship with at least one of their parents, and that rates are about double for Black families as they are for other groups [1]. Now - obviously it's a very complicated problem (i.e. incarceration etc.), but it's a lot easier to dismiss if you don't have to see it as a problem, rather, merely an oppressive measure by your villainous opponents.

The argument "The Black community has challenges at least partly due to the deep fragmentation of the family unit" can simply be dismissed and ignored with the radical, and ironically xenophobic statement: "The family unit is colonialist and racist".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_family_struct...
Not supporting is not the same as stealing. It's your business as to whether you want to support YT or not, but your disagreeing with their business practices or business model does not give you the right to steal. Perhaps I've misunderstood you (I'm reading this in context of your previous comment where you said you were okay with this, which I take to mean you're okay with stealing their content)?
If not rocks, what is it that mines dig out of the bedrock? What's bad about the wastes from steel and cement production?
The “public” isn’t people willing to put on business suits to travel. The “public” wanted to be able to afford to travel and that’s not what the Concorde brought.

The “public” you’re referring to is the small 0.1% of the population that gets annoyed when Delta One is sold out.
Ha! I thought as much.

Women’s apparel is a 600B industry. It is highly segmented, and literal armies of people analyze category and product performance across millions of skus. So spending a lot of time on something like this is definitely not unusual.
Ask HN: Bill Gates - Hero or Villain?
I posted this on HN 6 years ago, (wow time flies)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8674644

Basically, it’s a discussion about how Microsoft held back the internet 6-7 years.

Imagine that. Human society would be 6-7 years in some respect.

I also read about Gary Kidall, the creator of CP/M. Bill gates created a variant of it, MS-DOS, and the rest is history. He was endlessly compared by the media to Bill Gates. He became an alcoholic and died in a bar fight.

Today he’s a forgotten pioneer.

As an entrepreneur, that really strikes me. Imagine a business dealing that made my partner an addict and so bitter he dies violently.

Bill Gates would also “date rape” companies by making fake overtures to acquire software companies and gather intel.

Meanwhile, Bill Gates gets a ton of good press. My friend’s wife recently “liked” his facebook page, and she’s the hippie granola, anti-capitalism type.

What do you think?
There's nothing inherently good about something that's "natural". This sounds like the nonsense Steve Jobs was following before his death.
Revery also looks nice.

I wish they had more funding, tho. I find Reason/OCaml more compelling than Dart.
A great example of why domain owners need domain name insurance. Domain insurance protects the owner from the loss of the domain, from UDRPs, expiring domains, failed renewals, stolen domains, etc.

If it's a high-value domain (or if one that you just can't lose), then there other options, such as a registrar lock, or simply registering it for 100 years (i.e., Network Solutions), or even forever (Epik offers a forever domain registration). But that doesn't protect the domain owner from losing it via UDRP, lawsuit, Trademark issue, or having it stolen from them.
Nice work! One bug/feature I noticed: Once focused on the image tab, if I revise my search, the image tab loses focus and the primary search results tab gains focus. It wasn’t the expected behavior for me.
ICE is evil, not stupid; they'll probably rule that as invalid.
This actually isn’t a requirement unless you’re in the national pension system. When you’re below a certain number of employees you don’t have to join the national pension and many of those worker protections also don’t apply to you.
Snap sounds to me like the latest of many decisions by Canonical that are more like what you'd expect from a commercial vendor than a FOSS one. This is Microsoft-level coercing people into your own ecosystem.

I don't doubt for a moment that it makes business sense for Canonical, but I really wonder whether there's a market for this - the huge majority of people who don't care about this kind of thing are on Windows or Mac, or even just working happily away on their phones and tablets.

Linux' selling point for me was always that I was in control and could make the system work the way I wanted to; people more ideologically pure than me have slogans like "free as in freedom" or "binary blobs are bad".

I really don't see the market for "linux, but with commercial vendor practices". I switched from ubuntu to mint a while ago and I'm really happy about that right now.
We aren't really in that position today. The size, deliverability, and maintenance levels of both the US and the Russian nuclear stockpiles are nowhere near where they were forty years ago, and recent history has raised a lot of questions over whether even then they were where the zeitgeist believed them to be. No other country has stockpiles even remotely approaching the size it'd take to produce a conflict equal to Cold War fears.

Unfortunately, the major change between the Cold War and now is that the existential risks facing our civilization back then turned out to be a lot more straightforward to solve.
What's been fantastic about it? I'm genuinely interested. My only real familiarity with Clear is that I see it dominating those Phoronix benchmarks, but I didn't know it was a complete end-user distro.
i like the way it orders the search results and not listing meaningless more pages of results.

One thing i found while searching images is that, i cant start a new image search , because it brings me back to the "all" tab.

ex: search harry potter

go to images , now i wanted to search for hermione images alone, but it takes me all back to full web results.
How Does Stiffness Attract Load?
This matters only if Flutter is a closed source project – but it's not. You can fork it on Github right now and continue working on it even if Google pulls its engineers off. I'd assume that those of us (and there seem be a lot of people) invested in it will continue working on it.
That’s just direct economic analysis. Graduate students are incredibly valuable to the universities because they generate research which can be used to either directly apply for grants and federal/commercial awards, or which can be used to just add to the university’s reputation (which, in turn, affects their chances of getting a grant or money award, as they have a reputation of expertise). Even if the direct money being paid by these students is zero, I’m sure all universities (not just MIT and Harvard) care deeply about where their graduate students go; that’s a lot of good grey matter going to waste, and universities are in the business of converting grey matter directly into money!
Developers are supposed to do all this learning on their own time as well, right? No budget or time for training. In fact, why don't you do some overtime paid in pizza?

Learn new stuff at home on your own time, put it on github, it'll be fun, ignore your family and your friends.

And the helpful comments here for someone who is doing 12-hour days is to meditate and go for a walk?

Work 7 hours and go home, your life will be better.
I think the greatest challenge will be creating enough elements/visualizations and customization to please most customers.

Our team at Sheet.Best (https://sheet.best) was just talking about reducing the entry barrier for our services and one of the ideas was something like this.

Nice to see more competition on the "no code" approach to use spreadsheets as databases :).
My experience has been that the students who are there for highschool 2.0 spend the most and many foreign students need to find work to make ends meet. They are typically more motivated and focused than local students, spend less time going out (tho travel more) and far more on studies. This is also typical of continuing edu students.
“Increase Your Productivity – Vim Tips and Tricks”
“Increase your Productivity — Vim Tips & Tricks” by Curious Dev https://link.medium.com/jAU42pUxX7
They didn't give an average per case in this study, I arrived there by dividing the total amount of years lost by the amount of deaths (1,540/72 = 21.39).

That just happens to be close to the years lost per 100k.
If the goal is to acquire and update to latest versions of your favorite software, I would definitely recommend you to check out nix package manager.
I read several of the hoax papers, and skimmed one that included dog park data. Which paper are you referring to, where was it submitted, and where was it accepted? The hoax authors were exceptionally dishonest in their presentation of the results: virtually all of their papers were rejected, the accepts were generally in very low-impact venues, and the papers that got accepted were generally not the lurid ones they highlighted in their summary. I ask for specifics because it is not an interesting research result if they created a paper with clearly bogus data that was then rejected.

The problem with the experiment, of course, is that reviewing takes a fuckload of time and effort, and most fields barely keep up with the legitimate workload they have. They are literally taking time and resources from program committees, and they do have IRB obligations in order to do that.
Nvidia Valuation Soars Past Intel on Graphics Chip Boom
The problem with America's lab mice and why it should matter to you
Does this work well on RPi 4?
Wow. This post was marked dead within a minute of it being posted. I "vouched" for it, though given my pariah status on HN for calling out SV on social issues (such as racism), I'm surprised my "vouch" had any affect.

I have a lot more to say but HN doesn't really welcome my point of view, so...
And lot of people love him, lol...
Sorry, by “shown up here” meant his videos have been posted a few times. I dont think James spends his time on this site, he’s too busy being fussy about grind sizes.

:p
Building a Castle Using 13th Century Tools [video]
> Some Guy updates it on a volunteer basis when he remembers

Blame repo culture. In saner worlds there is no requirement for a middle man between developer and user, so users get the software when the developer releases it to them. For various reasons (only a few of which are technical), Linux has settled on this middelmen-everywhere way of doing things, and because it is FOSS all those middlemen are also volunteers, and then to top it all off there are dozens of repos and packaging formats.

AppImage (and its predecessors) have been valiantly struggling to undo this cultural brain damage.
You're right that it has been in Opera for years. Specifically it was introduced back in 2016. But Maxthon had it first, introducing it in 2010. Snaps or webpage screenshoting as well (2010), which was later put in Opera (2017) and recently on Firefox.
Chrome has this as well. However it's kinda hidden (in that you need to trigger it from JavaScript / need an extension to trigger it for you).
For whatever hate this is getting, I like the idea a lot and signed-up and hope to be able to play with this. I can already think of a ton of apps I would build/use with something like this -- not just for me, but for demos/tutorials/documentation I make for other users.

Keep doing your thing! It's a good idea!
Yeah going by https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/risky-blogspoti... it sounds like they had ample warning.
This is about Guédelon Castle:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu%C3%A9delon_Castle
I know someone that sat next to Sting.
> just use an alternative solution like flatpak

Saying "just use an alternative" seems overly dismissive of the complications that entails.

IIUC, the only options for that are (a) abandon Ubuntu, or (b) actively circumvent Ubuntu's software distribution infrastructure, reminiscent of dealing with Windows 10 forced updates.

IMHO this somewhat erodes Ubuntu's value proposition.
How to turn top funnel writers into product experts
Even if "it's only classes", there are things called time zones; if you're in Europe or Asia then it would fucking suck to have to get up everyday in the middle of the night to take classes.
International students generally do not qualify for financial aid from US schools.
Does Flutter have a native HTML widget yet? It didn't when I first started poking around with Flutter, and a quick Google doesn't reveal anything first-party.
I wonder how hard it would be, in theory, to write an open-source "cracked" version of snap that lets you do these things.
> have an option to filter out results from high traffic websites

That's what Million Short does
https://millionshort.com/
Yep. One of many reasons they're banned in our shop.

Even for client software it is bad - an app quitting out from under me because it wants to update is functionally equivalent to a crashing bug - but they're offering daemons this way, which is just insane.

Who doesn't want all their containers randomly restarting because someone up the distro chain decided when your machine needed to upgrade?

https://snapcraft.io/lxd
>There is no downside to Flatpak's support for multiple repositories and ability to self-host repositories.

There are always tradeoffs. I would argue there are advantages for having a trusted party vetting my software repos. It's why I even use Ubuntu because I trust Canonical to make some sane decisions when vetting their repositories.

You give multiple repository support and suddenly users have to one find a way to add another repo, and second there is no way of removing software from those repositories if they do end up malicious.

Which is why I brought up the webupd8 java instance having root access to thousands of machines.

>users can optionally add more repositories if they choose to do so.

Ubuntu is the version of Linux designed to be used by your grandmother. They want to make it as easy as possible for users to install trusted/safe software from both proprietary/free vendors.

It's kind of telling that Mozilla/Microsoft/Spotify/Jetbrains released software as a snap long before it is even possible on flatpak but nevermind that. I don't think you can even get VSCode, Spotify or Intellij on Flatpak.
To call Ubuntu snap a security disaster would be a tremendous understatement.
One of the ways to make space for growth and learning is to say no to more things at your job. I wish I had started this earlier in my career. I used to think it was important to do everything people asked me to do, even if I couldn't do them all really well.

The truth is organizations only respect you for the things you do well and that an organization thinks is important. (So if you are great at documentation for example, and the organization doesn't prioritize that, don't be surprised that no one cares. Etc.)

Doing things you are not very good at or don't have time for only damages your brand. Saying no is also a way to test the waters about how much what you are doing is valued. Imagine part of your job is X, and someone says: "Can you do Y?" You say: "I can't I am working on X." If they say do Y instead, its a hint that either X isn't that important or people don't think you are valuable to it. Find that out!

People will waste your time with meaningless or unimportant work. It is one of the ways that they tell you that they don't really value your contribution. Or not. The way to find out is to try no.
The whole point of peer review and publications like these is to ensure a quality of published research. If someone conducts a study and determines that a significant portion of fraudulent research is published, then this demonstrates that the publication is not doing a good job of detecting fraudulent research. Some may respond that these authors were deliberately attempting to get their fraudulent papers published, and that these pieces were only published because they were bad faith actors. And? Who's to say that other authors aren't doing the same? The whole point of the system is to detect bad faith actors, so pointing out that the authors of the grievance studies papers were not publishing in good faith is no excuse.

This is like saying pen testing or red team exercises are fatally flawed. They're not. But they can definitely be embarrassing when they reveal deficiencies, so it's understanding why many would want to reject the results of these exercises. But if the organizations wants to improve they need to react constructively to the issues that were revealed, not dismiss the study as flawed. Unfortunately, in this situation the latter seems to be happening.
Yeah, who cares about "trivialities" like "my ethical principles are inconsistent or absurd"?

Apparently, all the people who criticize the ethics of the police, the ethics of politicians, the ethics of racist economic policies, and so on. I mean, it's not like consistent ethical principles might go into devising something like a Constitution that recognizes people's natural rights and restricts government from infringing on those rights.

Amazing that you managed to turn this into a partisan attack on "your side" when all that's being discussed is the logical inconsistency of your own stated principles.
From my perspective as an outsider I see the regular US citizens loving HIPAA, seems to me to be p[laced in the same category as guns and free speech (even more I never seen someone arguing that health data should be sold to the highest bidder and in secret) were for guns and free speech there are people that want more limitations.
That's not true. Almost all state universities charge a much higher tuition fee to foreign and out-of-state students (sometimes two to three times higher). That higher fee is used to subsidize the fee of in-state students. Sorry to be crass, but please do some research before spewing your bullshit online.
Hmm, I can design a wall, analyze a diaper and butcher a sonnet.
You should do that. I did so in 2012 and I have never looked back. Besides that ArchLinux just works better the ArchLinux community understood that a good documentation is way more important than a flashy gui.