skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beware of "Being downvoted proves I'm right!" - that way lies madness.

EDIT: My thoughts exactly GP,

> sometimes they're flagged because they are divisive, and known (or expected) to produce flame wars and unpleasant exchanges.

I had a look at the article. I thought it was well-written and interesting, but already I was imagining and dreading a huge messy HN comment page, with a lot of whited-out comments etc, not really worth reading.

Sometimes I upvote stories/blog posts I think are really bad, but the comments are really good and I want to encourage them. People coming along later saying "I cant believe this crappy story has 500 votes!" or "Why was this flagged??" miss that point - people also vote on the comments as a whole, even if there's none there yet. Many people mostly just read the comments, so not surprising they'd vote on them, not the story.
You could re-run FHE until some condition fails. This is what your CPU does BTW.

Again - the only reason you shouldn’t do that in homomorphic encryption is because this way you will leak run duration information.
HN is an international site and has quite diverse population from what I have seen. Some Indian threads are pro government while others are completely anti-government. There are so many variables for this - one could be timezone and day of the week. I have a list of usernames for people who participate on those threads so I know it's different every time.
We need a free hardware movement.
> 2. We want you to be responsible for unlimited liability for whatever the drug might eventually do

Well, yeah, we don't want a drug that kills more people than it saves, right?

> we want you to rush your testing

That's not happening, what will be accelerated will be regulatory approvals and reviews, not clinical trials.
Yes, you are right. It's libel.

Wow, I did not know that the surveillance bureaus are exempt from libel. What an incredible law against the interests of the people. That explains why I've never heard about class action suites against them. I'll have to read up on it. Thanks for the info.
It's the context of the answer; you stated possibilities, but, when considering consequences of actions, possibilities don't matter.
I experienced this at Odawara station. I was there at around 11PM waiting for a train back to Tokyo.
> Because we believe in the free market and they believe in a controlled market?

We pay lip service to the free market, but in practice we believe in controlled, privately owned markets and China believes in controlled, state owned markets.
> The obsession with citing facts in paranoid literature that Hofstadter mentions is no longer a thing: modern paranoia is untethered.

The paranoid now cite "facts" that are stated somewhere online. They still cite them, though, as though they definitively settled the case.
You’re probably right, but seeing that Google Meet isn’t enforcing its trademark on extensions used by tens thousands of people (“Google Meet Grid View”, “Google Meet Enhancement Suite”, “Google Meet Push to Talk”, etc), I’ll just keep the name.
Yup. "The web" = www.*
Does the DMCA require that DRM systems "fail open" once the work is no longer covered by copyright?

Irrelevant. Once the work is no longer protected by copyright, the DMCA no longer applies to make cracking any DRM locking up the work illegal. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
US population is now more than twice of what it was in 1957.
I didn't assume anything. I told you why it was unlawful, in the comment directly above.
You can either say “a Turing machine can not be implemented” or “it can” but never “not any Turing machine” because there isn’t any types of a Turing machine - just a single one.
Emotional video that will make you laugh
There are ways to provide safety interlocks for naive users that don't require bowdlerising the entire platform.

What's more, Apple doesn't prevent those users entering payment card details into websites they reach by other means; this protection is patchy at best. Nor does it prevent apps using psychological tricks to maximise their revenue through the platform itself, e.g. as with many gambling and gaming apps.

So with the best will in the world I can't see that this security angle justifies the anti-competitive behaviour.

I'll also observe that in most card schemes, account holders aren't liable for fraudulent transactions. Although I would concede that many scams aren't technically fraudulent (merely egregious, unfair, and deceptive), and that naive users often don't understand their rights or how to assert them.
Not quite true either. He reached over and operated a touch screen device, thus causing the crash to happen, and it was using the touch screen while driving that caused his licence to be suspended. If it's really true that you can't adjust the wiper speed on a Tesla without taking your attention off the road and onto some ludicrous touch screen interface, then I have no idea why any government in the world would accept these vehicles as roadworthy; surely wiper speed is a safety critical function that must be operated quickly, by touch alone, and without having to stop and think or look away from the road.
Thanks! I did look at Wirecutter actually, but for example the Amazon reviews for LG LP1419IVSM appear a little scary -- average 3.5/5, with 20% of them being 1/5. Have you actually had good experience with portable ACs from Wirecutter recommendations, or did you just recommend them in general?
This looks like a really complex crontab that requires mongoDB of all things.
Importantly, though, Kodak did not act as though the information had become public -- they attempted to get the news reports unpublished and keep the information non-public. At best, this is wildly incorrect bordering on fraudulent; at worst, it's insider trading.
Hacking up a fix for the broken AppleTalk kernel module in Linux 5.1 and newer
Get a deep freeze. It costs very little energy to cool an insulated box that only opens at the top. Mechanically, they are simple as hell so not very expensive either.
Many of those bases will have baby + home security cameras which are far more obviously a security risk, because they (potentially) send WiFi passwords home.

Trump's move is pure theatre. He has no clue about real security and he's throwing his weight around like an attention-seeking child, because that's what he does.

This is an entirely orthogonal issue to something that's been missing in the West for decades - a coherent program of IT security and IoT and app standards which define exactly what products and apps can and can't do, and which enforces a testing and certification process to make sure products and services stay within the lines.

And also... mandated protections for user data - something the EU is moving towards, but which the US still seems to be having issues with.

Between IoT, IT infrastructure, poor corporate security, and unregulated data capture, there are much more serious security threats than the TikTok app.
I'll admit that one thing China is great at - downvote brigading posts about China, as evidenced right here. Still not high-tech though.
I don't follow. My advice is that OP sit on their cash until the next crash happens. Then they should buy up stock and rental property. Before the crash, if they don't want to keep everything in cash, they could buy some gold which tends to increase in value right after a crash. The crash that started in 2008 bottomed out in March 2009 when the DJI fell to 7000. That would have been the time to buy stocks. By Nov. 2013 the DJI was up to about 14,000. As for gold, it was at $864/oz around Sept. 2008 which was a few months before the crash. By August 2011, gold was at $1819/oz.
UnrealEngine and Nvidia RTX servers generating CGI fans for baseball games
This is a parity of a NatSec threat. Any base that is legitimately secret would disallow it’s personal from using apps like this. And that data is trivially replaced by satellite photography. Non secret bases are supported by hundreds of “Third Country Nationals” that do everything from trash collection to serving food in the chow hall. TikTok is not a natsec threat unless our military personnel are posting natsec information to it. Pretty easy to solve that problem and not ban it for everyone.
In a just society, a creator wouldn't have to make that decision at all.

It's truly fucked up that privileged people feel like they can decide how other people should earn their living just so that they can avoid spending a few bucks.

With DRM, the party on one side of the copyright bargain retains all of the spoils, for all time, at the other side's expense.

This is not true. It is only illegal to crack DRM of copyright-protected works. Once a work falls out of copyright, it's fully legal to crack any DRM. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
> You can be tough on China without becoming China.

Honest question. Do you know how this could be done? I'm not too familiar with foreign affairs.
Very cool site. Love the breakdown of different categories to determine something’s overall score. And it’s interesting to see the score you get from doing a matchup.
> The next big site will be pornhub meets tiktok. 90 seconds or less x-rated content that is connected to patreon and your tiktok profile

Ha, not sure if this was supposed to be a joke or not, but that’s arguably what lead Tumblr’s rise to prominence, and also their demise when the porn ban was implemented
I must be really awful at explaining my point or there's an awful lot of willful ignorance in this thread. Either way, something awful is going on.

Read carefully: the engineering culture of Google - it's practices, policies, principles, insiprations, and so on - did not make Go. The prior experiences of the Go authors, and a handful of specific and obvious influences, both of which are objectively not of Google, made Go. Google's engineering ethos does not get credit for Go, though maybe an argument can be made that their wallet gets credit. Personally, I don't agree with that, but it's beside the point.
“Faking” Local Development with “Wrangler Dev” & Cloudflare Workers
Good info! I didn’t know this :)
RT and Al Jazeera may suffer scrutiny, but the US government cannot ban Americans from reading them.
I've had a hard time following who's doing what.
Note only the KP Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals are non profit. The med groups (which employ drs and a lot of other personnel) are for profit.

I think both a strength and weakness of KP is that it is not really one organization, but more like 20+ related legal entities. Each region has their own med group/health plan with some regions having their own hospital foundation (some like Georgia do not own hospitals). This means that a lot of work/decision making is extremely siloed and KP National has limited ability to lay down the law. Different Regions and even just medgroup vs health plan within one region often don’t want to share data. Also, KP’s ehr is not cross-region compatible.
I'm reposting this reply to you because it makes my argument well. The other guy's "new" account got wiped out by it's new status and was easily downvoted away from people that can't read "dead" posts. Anyway, here it is:

People really need to stop suggesting using condoms as a solution. It’s not a solution.

First, it puts the blame on the victim. “Oh you got an STD? Should have used a condom.” Stop blaming the victim. Birthday suits don't come with condoms by default and many people expect unprotected sex, so it’s a reasonable expectation that people don't wear condoms.

Secondly there are a lot of places that people have SEX (Software EXchange). It’s not convenient to put on condoms in all places. If I used condoms when going to the local glory hole, every dick I sucked that needed a condom would make me stop, go to my bag, find my box of condoms, open one, and put it on him. Then go back to sucking dicks, bust this guy's nut, then go through the hassle of taking the condom off. That’s not a reasonable workflow to even suggest.

Lastly... ah nevermind, I don’t actually want to know if you honestly believe anyone is enforcing sex-after-marriage with a gun. It’s not true in any way but it’s such a ludicrous statement that I honestly don’t even want to hear if you’re being serious or not. For my own mental health I will pretend you’re joking.
If it is sold to Microsoft, is any of that still applicable?
trying to dig into the root of this frustration, i think it mostly stems from the misalignment for how we expect the internet to behave (open, accessible, all the other fun Tim BL stuff, etc). it’s extremely unfortunate that companies like peloton, john deere, skydio, on some level DJI, and others as we cross software into the real world haven’t kept up with those expectations. huge loss, and concerning behavior as the internet starts to expand further IRL.
Case Study: Etsy
Don't worry about maximizing your return. Worry about frittering it away. Do you already have the habits to be frugal-ish and control costs, or do you start spending more when you have more in your pocket?
>Very interesting video

The content might be interesting, but it's way too long. The guy goes on way too many tangents and adds way too much filler. You probably can boil the whole video down to a few bullet points, yet it's 16 minutes long.
Assaults mostly happen on crowded subway trains during rush hours.

The solution to that has been to make some cars women-only.
My one friend writes code for satellites. My other friend is a security vulnerability researcher working on the Linux kernel. I write code to process terabytes, potentially petabytes of data consistently and performant. I don't really know people who do frontend professionally in my personal life but I can't imagine keeping a webapp serving millions of people on many different devices performantly is easy.

My point is it really depends on the scale or depth of the work you're doing. It's pretty easy to keep things running smoothly for a smaller company or one not doing hardware etc etc but I think this really misses the mark for a lot of work, there's a scale or depth where you can't get away with not using what the author says is only used in interviews.
> What this person should have done is

You can't say what somebody "should have done" without knowing a lot more details about their life.
Bullshit. Your system is the one that produces that (see also fanfiction authors, who I'm sure aren't true Scotsmen to you). As I said:

My system is the system that has enabled hundreds of thousands of artists and other creators to survive on their own without needing publishers or other entities to sell their work for them and pay them a pittance.

Basic income is a separate discussion. It would mean that artists wouldn't die, but it would also mean that corporations would get to exploit artists worse than they ever have before.

You really need to think of the consequences of your suggestions before you suggest altering other people's livelihoods for your own momentary convenience.
NASA Astronauts Return Home in SpaceX's Crew Dragon Spacecraft [video]
Usually when you want to cheat in virtual races you simply claim to be 20 kg lighter than you actually are. No need for a protocol hack or motors.
I like the article title and agree, the other points the author make are valid but seem like randomly picked issues.
Portable AC's exist because window units don't fit in sliding windows and you can't move them from room to room. That's the point of being portable! Believe me I'd love to be able to buy a $50 used window AC like I did in college if it fit my window.

In the video, the guy says he owns two portable AC's. So there's that.
Just randomly thinking out loud: Is it possible to stop privately owned markets without the state having more control? I suppose the concern is with large private corporations, as opposed to smaller to medium sized businesses. I think that's what a lot of Democrats want to do, but I often associate them with bigger government. I know very little about politics though.
Yeah, he should have just spend a few grand on a mini split system to stay cool for one summer at home. Makes sense.
It 100% justifies our behavior and response to a totalitarian, duplicitous, and exclusionary regime that is the government of China.

The parallels of the Nazis hosting the 1936 Olympics and the Chinese hosting the 2008 Olympics will not go unnoticed by future historians.
India's New Education Policy – 2020 [pdf]
It doesn't but all that means is the form for renouncing has a checkbox asking "are you doing this for tax reasons"? And you check "no". Then during the consular interview you spew some line about how you no longer have attachments to the US -- "I haven't been back in over 3 years, own no property, let my driver's license expire" and you do have attachments in your new country "All my friends are here and I even spend Christmas here!"

It is more of a retroactive "if we find out later you lied we now have a legal basis to add extra penalties" but in practice nobody is really checking or cares. The underfunded IRS doesn't care about the tiny number renouncing and the consular officials doing the interview certainly don't care.
> This is not true for a 10 years period though

It was true in this ten-year period (2000-2009) if you rebalanced between VFINX (S&P) and VBMFX (bonds):

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2010/12/17/the-lost-de...
It is almost strange how the whole "a local company connected to local intelligence will handle the user data for you" is basically the same thing in China. When it's China, it's spooky and totalitarian. When it's America...
“Each day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it”
https://mobile.twitter.com/maplecocaine/status/1080665226410...
It's worth noting that this was a contrarian view in 1995, and that most of us saw things going the other way.
Whatever is wrong with China, and there is plenty, the US and particularly the president's behavior is dictatorial here.

Perhaps the administration could outline the new intel that has come to light in the last month that has made this such an urgent issue right now, as opposed to any other time in the past year.

Otherwise, as a layman, I might think that the humiliating "million ticket reservation" prank of the president's Tulsa, OK rally that adolescents orchestrated on TikTok is what triggered it.
Microsoft reportedly puts TikTok acquisition talks on hold
This is a bizarre article in the flavor of NY Times India coverage which cannot look at India except through the lens of cow, caste and curry. After all how could a third world entrepreneur build the biggest data network in the world for the cheapest price? Not once but twice!

One instance of how the article is riddled with errors:

"From 1980 to 1985, the number of equity investors in India rose from 1m to 5m, and by 1985 1 million of them owned shares of Reliance. Since equity investors are likely to be middle class and above, this gave Reliance a broader political constituency: instead of buying individual regulators with bribes, they nudged the electorate with dividends."

As per [1] 240 million people cast votes in the 1985 election. So with 0.25% of the total vote scattered across hundreds of constituencies Reliance was able to swing the electorate which is fractured across die-hard political affiliations, economic interests, religions and caste hierarchies. Sure whatever.

Perhaps it is hard for the author to admit that Mukesh Ambani, the current CEO of Relaince/Jio and son of the founder, is a unparalleled operational genius. He singlehandedly led the team that rolled out the biggest refinery in the world in Gujurat in 1999 [2] where "biggest in the world" and India never went together for anything manufactured.

He also rolled out Reliance Communications in the 1990s which was then the cheapest mobile provider by an order of magnitude [3]. That business went to his brother Anil in the family split in 2006 and Anil ran it into the ground. When their fraternal non-complete expired Mukesh built out Jio which again dropped data pricing by an order of magnitude and made voice free. Jio now has the cheapest data in the world [4]. This bankrupted all his competitors who were centi-billion market cap companies and forced them to drop prices and merge. It also bought hundreds of millions of extremely poor Indians to feature phone ownership for the first time. They had the opportunity to what he did but could not. They also wielded the same power with the bureaucracy that he did but were not able to leverage it.

I certainly would like 12GB of data $1.23. Heck, even 10x that is a bargain. But instead of pondering what he did the author spins dark tales of subterfuge, mafia, corruption and bribes.

Eye-roll

[1] https://www.idea.int/data-tools/country-view/146/40

[2] https://www.bechtel.com/projects/jamnagar-oil-refinery/

[3] https://www.rediff.com/money/2002/dec/27ril1.htm

[4] https://www.cable.co.uk/mobiles/worldwide-data-pricing/
You're excluding from consideration the category of justified property destruction. "Violence" is a different thing. No one outside the police and a few undercover police want to see kids and old people get injured, maimed, or killed. If police continue to escalate, there will also be violence in the other direction. That's on them.
An experience designed by designers that was then put through the wringer so that it accomplished marketing and business needs initially not present. Rarely do designs not change as they move through the development/deployment pipeline.

Then designs are iterated in search of better or higher X, for whatever X business is optimizing for at that time.
I first met Prof. Knuth at a conference in 1995 where James Gosling and I gave a talk about Java, and at the same conference I told folks that I was leaving Sun and joining a startup.

Three years later, while talking to Don at a picnic, he said, "When I first met you I couldn't tell if you were really smart or really stupid." :-) He thought that being part of the original Java team would be the most exiting place to be. Then a couple of years later (2001, post dot com crash) he told me he had decided I had made a pretty smart choice, all things considered. That was a good day.
It’s WebGL.

Check out https://www.shadertoy.com/ for lots more of these demos. You can do some really amazing stuff.
No. It's impossible for a coder to make money in software.

You forgot to add "as long as you're a shameless self promoting blogger and SEO spammer who spends 1% of the time coding and 99% of the time marketing." That is what you meant to say.

I'd rather be coding and let someone who wants to do marketing do the marketing. That's how specialization works. But your world as it exists today doesn't allow for social introverts who are skilled at coding to get paid one cent. Coding jobs require extrovert personality and marketing skill in addition to coding. Coding doesn't pay.

So I do something else.
It seems to me that portable units are all kind of equally meh. Seem to be about 50% as good as a window unit (which is about 50% as good as a mini-split or whole-home AC in my opinion). The dual-hose units don't seem to be a whole lot better than the single-hose units, honestly. Considering getting someone to professionally install a mini-split in my apartment to replace two portable units (1hose and 2hose).
I don't know about portable, but FWIW the Wirecutter window AC reviews don't match my experience at all. They say that Friedrich is louder than LG, which I know to be false because I have one of each running in adjacent rooms.
Yes, we have one, it's great.

Still curious about the diy potential here though...

Edit: It occurs to me you might be suggesting that it would be better to rip out the guts of a freezer than to use an air-conditioner... which does make a certain amount of sense.