skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate the name, even the colonial imperialist associations with Cyber Monroe Doctrine sound more diplomatic than Clean Network. This literally sounds like an intellectual purge. Maybe because it is. This is a very purge-y purge name for a purge.

I guess we've officially thrown our hat into the ring for digital sovereignty and cyberpopulism. I wanted some decentralization but not like this.

I'm just upset that China gets Great Firewall and Russia gets Digital Iron Curtain and we get... Clean Network.

Is it too much to ask that we at least have better marketing for our authoritarianism?

Also, seems like a dated understanding. What happens when the Internet reaches comparable availability via satellite?
No wonder they want to test shooting missiles in orbit.

With EARN-IT, the H1-B ban, Clean Network, etc., I fear we're setting back our scientific and intellectual advantage several generations. The lessons of the Crypto Wars feel distinctly appropriate.

I'm certainly starting to feel the wind blow a certain direction.
Only the paranoid survive.
Absolutely. I'm not arguing for widespread use of raw milk, just mentioning that I actually think that's a bigger source of lost variety in cheese for the vast majority of us (at least in the UK and US) than a few low-volume types ceasing production.

While I'm sure my production facility (a.k.a kitchen) isn't as clean as most commercial facilities, I don't have to transport it, worry about lack of temperature control, or about the lag between when it's ready and when it gets consumed, so there is much less chance I grow a bunch of listeria. I also don't feed it to old people, children, or the immunocompromised.
Steam's keyboard was mentioned in the Gamasutra article linked to in the article[1], which I found more interesting than the original article. I'd recommend reading it; the two-stick entry method detailed by the end of the article makes basically every game-pad entry system I've ever used feel archaic.

[1]: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/CharlieDeck/20170721/301392/...
Clang/llvm also does heap ellision (removing unnecessary mallocs) while gcc didn't last time I checked. I think the llvm devs allows themselves to have a more practical understanding of the cpp standard.
Wow that's sad. So he correctly knew to buy silver, but lost it because of the complexity of where he hit all the different pieces of the collection?
> "China's firewall restricts freedom; our copy of it promotes freedom."

Sadly, I think there are a lot of people who would believe that.
Facebook Removes Trump Campaign’s Misleading Coronavirus Video
I use rss and cope with filters.
The supposed "widespread agreement" doesn't include this less-biased source:
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/do-school-spend...

I suppose the fallacy was not a claim of correctness due to actual popularity. It was a claim of correctness due to non-existent popularity. We don't all agree.

Lack of money for pens and paper seems to be fake. Remember that they are dirt cheap. Blowing the budget on computers, then claiming that you can't afford pens and paper, is a great tactic to fight for an unjustified funding increase. When I see millions of dollars being spent on football stadiums, my blood boils. Clearly, the budget is far too large. It is purposely misallocated. You could increase the budget enough to buy every student a ream of paper and a box of pens every day, and there still wouldn't be enough money for pens and paper.

I know a person who taught in a DC school. There is no teaching. Nobody is willing to cooperate. That's how it goes, and no amount of money will fix it.

Spending all our money on bad students will harm society. We need high achievers. We need the gifted. Money spent on the better students is more productive, leading to great engineers and scientists who will produce the civilization-enabling technology.

If you own a trailer home in a bad trailer park, and you also own a cute townhouse in a fashionable neighborhood, where should you spend the money to install a marble floor? Putting the marble floor in the trailer home is a wasted investment.
Yeah... using Breitbart as an example was really unconvincing.

I recently spent an hour of my life trying to convince an acquaintance that a video she found on breitbart claiming the "Frontline Doctors of America" were fighting to expose a conspiracy to suppress a 100% effective covid-19 cure was faked.

That's not "conservative" content, that's propaganda that puts people people in imminent physical danger.
Now we just need to finish moving from REST to pseudo-RPC and we'll have come full circle back to the 90s. Does this mean I can put bevels on my UI buttons again?
> Same reason why we have a ~/.config folder now instead of just shoving everything into ~/ like we used to.

Who/what is the "we" here? Last I checked my homefolder was still chock full of dotfiles in-use.
For power on the surface? Solar will do fine and is dead simple to setup. I have no specific knowledge, but I suspect there is some way to relatively easily manufacture solar cells on mars with minimal equipment, and that would be a much cheaper prospect that shipping a big nuclear plant to mars. Perovskites last I read are simple to make, and the atmosphere of mars may be far less corrosive with the lack of free oxygen.

For propulsion? Nuclear rockets can't be used until you get out of the allen belts, otherwise fission product fall back to earth, it's really what submarined Orion as a concept. Pulse nuclear is probably the primary means for interplanetary transport if a sufficient manufacturing can be bootstrapped.

In space stations / asteroid mining? Again solar is king without pesky atmospheres getting in the way. But once you have pulse nuclear ships flying around, it should be trivial to also have a thorium reactor for power.
The Linux priorities I outlined are fundamentally different. It’s a demand that the maker of the software alter the core of their business model.

This is very different from asking for a native UI or to use a core OS API, etc.

Again, it’s fine to ask for a radical business change or require it but the frequency of this as a demand does help explain why few companies go down this path.

(As for 1Password abandoning one time sales for subscriptions, to me this is a separate issue. One, it’s not news or part of the linked article, two it’s not particularly related to the Linux release, three it affects all platforms. However if you did try and relate it to this discussion I think their current business model is actually much more compatible with going open source than the old one. I don’t think they will do this but the bundling of storage with software that came with the subscription model offers a more economically viable path for open sourcing because their revenue is less dependent on being the software provider. You could argue it would actually help their sales by providing a fallback ecosystem that shows customer there is no lock in and by making it possible to audit the crypto used to ensure their infra is zero knowledge. I think even among Linux users only a small fraction want to run their own password servers. I know I don’t. But I think they would judge the risk of enabling a low rent low quality low cost turnkey competitor too high and frankly I would agree with them. I think an open core model could work where they keep the UI chrome closed but this will not satisfy the critics.)

(Also I’m a longtime 1Password user myself. I was VERY bummed by the change to subscriptions but I don’t find it as dark as you do. The product I paid $60 or whatever for many years ago still works fine; old vaults continue to function so we were not really “left in the dust.” When I moved to a subscription it was because I needed new capabilities. Sharing passwords and other secrets with other people chief among them. This is IMO worth the subscription cost. My main concern is security; I do not like having to trust their closed source crypto to keep my stuff secure on their server. One party with sensitive data and crucial code is excessive risk. However I do not want to stand up my own server. That is even worse. And all the open source alternatives would require me to do this for sync support. Which is a bit odd considering 1pw used to offer peer to peer WiFi sync. I guess this is too hard for any of the open source projects to offer.)
Confused. Didn't see anything in there about privacy. And how does that relate to pair bonding, as an 'obvious' result? I'm missing something.
I got bored with engineering because it became easy. The patterns always repeated, and I knew that the only thing standing between me and my desired outcome was a fully understood path of actions.

I don’t believe you have to reach this level across a wide domain, but you should be able to achieve it within some reasonably narrow technical scope. If you don’t, you will not be able to lead a technical team effectively. When you are in leadership, you may not always be on the hook for delivering, but you can win major support from your team if you are capable of diving in and doing something technically impressive from time to time. In addition, you will need to be able to teach engineers and guide technical implementation, which requires the ability to communicate clearly about deeply technical topics. I find that the less I know about a construct (think Law of Demeter, etc.) the less I’m able to communicate it to others or build solid arguments for or against it.

I think you must dig in and obsess about becoming great at engineering. My passion for this role is because of its meta nature. I love engineering and have built strong opinions about it over my career, and now I want to engineer a team of engineers who can see things similarly, and ultimately do greater things collectively. This wouldn’t be possible if I didn’t take the time to be a great engineer first.
I think it offered some capabilities to free up disk space but Storage Sense is now part of Windows.

The idea that Windows is some kind of nightmare to work with just isn't my experience at all. It is stable, and the performance is fine. OEM crapware sucks, admittedly, but it isn't as bad as it used to be.

One could reasonably complain that Windows 10 is invasive to your privacy, or adds to the cost of a new computer. And it still lets idiots get into trouble, but only after clicking that they are sure that they are an idiot a few times in a row.

Apple solves that by only letting people do things that they are approved to do by Apple, for a meager 30% fee on every transaction. So the question users need to ask is whether the 30% idiot tax is worth it.
Only if you can manage to do nothing and keep from flooding your healthcare system.
Thanks for the reply! I also enjoy some of the programming subreddits. HN is a main source of tech news for me as well.
"If you believe in a free and open internet then you have to agree this is wrong."

I don't have to agree. Perhaps it was 'wrong' before that Breitbart ranked as high as they did earlier.

I can still go to Breitbart.com - no one is stopping me from going there. No one is stopping them from setting up their servers, hosting their content, and doing all that stuff. They don't get as much 'free' exposure via google as they used to. Other sites now get more visibility. So what? If BB kept their 'visibility' in the search index, every search result they show up in is taking space from a different site that might have shown up instead. Why are they owed anything from google? Google changes their algorithms, and there's more content to compete with too.

If we make some sort of assumption that google's algorithms get modified or perhaps simply adapt to the audience's searches, perhaps... there's less appetite for Breitbart content and ideas across google's user base, and them ranking lower years down the road isn't some grand left-wing conspiracy, but a company serving the needs and desires of its users?
A victimless crime - unless you think we should be locking up all of the alcohol sellers? Alcohol addiction is a sad, sad affair.

I would rather someone be addicted to pharmaceutical grade opioids than street heroin laced with fentanyl and other junk.
That was Jio's strategy in the early days, but they're already quite profitable (~US$500MM in Q2) and trending upwards.

https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/reliance...
Maybe edit this to remove the last statement?
Isn’t it ironic to have this book on Amazon?
Once your site gets traction it should be easy to get sponsored listings which should add at least $2K to $4K per month depending on who is interested. Also not sure if you're already doing it but try to build an email list. That's where the real money is imo.
It's the same with libraries, IMO. Of course both tooling and libraries increase with the size of your project, but if either is disproportionately large compared with the size of the code involved, it's a bit smelly.
You would think if you guys were working on those AC voltages, you'd have an arc flash suit on hand and he would have also put on an arc flash suit to do that.
There are plenty of other great recommendations on the website by other people if you'd like to idolize someone else.

Personally, I find Goodreads and general Amazon reviews to not be very helpful. The book A Perfect Mess has terrible reviews, and as a book it's poorly written. But it was definitely worth reading, and I wouldn't have found it if Marc Andreessen hadn't recommended it. A lot of books are simply too tough for the average person to read. I wouldn't recommend most people read Bill Gates' reading list, but people in the top 10% should.
I absolutely love my Flip and it's clamshell design (the Wikipedia seems to hint that the fold will be a clamshell design too)

The battery life is terrible. The camera is a joke. I've broken the screen in three separate places because it's super fragile.

But I genuinely love the thing - the aesthetics are gorgeous, and it gets out my way when I'm not using it, far less of a distraction than any other phone I've used.

I really hope to see more folding smart phones on the market - I also really hope Samsung make another phone like the Flip without having a massive screen on the front!
How long does it take to start up GTA V on your computer?
Why would I like to think "Like an Epidemiologist"? They've completely f*"ed up on this pandemic and continue to do so.

The only thing epidemiology has proven is that "epidemiology" is not a science. It shares it's utter lack of predictive power with the non-science fields of economics and sociology.
On the Subtle Network Science of Optimal Office Communication
While HN gives poor career advice, the books recommendations around here have been top notch.
Your point is a complete non-sequitar though? How'd it go from "Patrick is very active on HN/with developer communication!" to "yeah but Stripe is expensive"?

AFAIK they see themselves as a "premium" processor, not as a cheap one.
then they should show ads without all the tracking...
A little over a decade ago now, back when the Sony PSP was current, there was a neat little homebrew IM client called AFKIM. It used bitlbee to connect to various IM services (AIM, GTalk, MSN, etc.) and worked pretty well for something running on a PSP.

The keyboard, though, was great:

http://localhost.geek.nz/afkim/docs/usingafkim.html

It's a 3x3 matrix. You use the analog stick to pick a square, then hit one of the face buttons to enter a character. Left and right shoulder buttons shifted the keyboard to uppercase, numbers, specials, etc.

IIRC it was a Lua module that any PSP homebrewer could drop into their application for a pretty decent OSK.
I can easily see someone making, for example, three giant triangles or circles for a variety of reasons—fun, art, or engineering—without the intent to alarm anyone. If someone were to visibly write out SOS or HELP, though, they are either in need of help, or extraordinarily careless (or even malicious) in their deceit. But that’s unlikely enough to still warrant checking in.
If I gave you 0.0000000... as input, you would have to scan forever to find out whether I put in a nonzero digit. Scanning to a partial depth would not result in partial accuracy, because the step function is discontinuous.
I'm not sure if this is still valid advice. I'd just stick 64GB of memory in a desktop PC and have the home lab running on VMs.

5 years ago I left a company running loads of enterprise software and web applications for other companies in a couple of data centers. We had well over 10.000 physical machines. When I left, about 90% of the workloads were virtualized. Running on bare metal is the exception today.

Sure, its cool to have hot-swap HDDs, hot-swap PSUs, redundant network cards and a remote management board but none of that is rocket science. You can learn it in a week if needed.

Networking is a much deeper topic yet almost nobody would recommend you to set up a couple of switches and hardware firewalls in your home network. Today you expect that the hardware just works. In the real world it is extremely complicated to correctly design and run networks, but you aren't going to experience any of these problems in a home lab.
> Any Turing Award laureate deserves a black banner

Except for Tim Berners-Lee, who tries to make the web a proprietary platform
There is a pretty simple feature that would alleviate a lot of pain with Stripe’s billing service when invoicing enterprises - allow for attaching a pdf of the invoice in the automated email.

Many enterprise A/P departments require it. The lack of this feature has prevented us from moving off our existing invoicing system to Stripe. I’m guessing we are not unique.
i thought calcium was good for you. How is vitamin d causing high levels of calcium toxic?
For some reason left-wing people don't seem to be able to differentiate between Stormfront and Breitbart. Breitbart is very much mainstream conservative content. Stormfront is extremely, extremely fringe.

I believe this is an example of orthodox privilege.
this is some pretty enlightened centrist content
Why Is Privacy Something You Should Care About?
In Brazil, Instagram Stories basically killed Snapchat.
Tried HP z27q for a month under Linux with Cinnamon, didn't like it. Being a DP 1.2 monitor, 5K resolution is implemented as an ugly hack using MST and two displayport connections. The system views it essentially as two independent monitors. Stuff like maximizing windows just plain doesn't work, you always work on half the screen, window panels are half sized, etc. Some work went into fixing user experience on GNOME, but for Cinnamon the maintainers are not interested in proper support for MST and I'm not interested in switching DEs. The situation is a better in newer monitors with DisplayPort 1.4 though, which gets rid of MST. But these are only Planar and Iiyama which you say you have problems sourcing. My monitor examplar also every so often would randomly flicker for a few minutes on a cold start, which also contributed to my decision to get rid of it.

My recommendation is to just get a 4K 27". Much more options and similar enough PPI, you would hardly tell the difference. Well, you won't have the perfect 2x scaling without stuff looking too big, but most desktop environments today support fractional scaling and/or you can play with your font sizes. I have 2x scaling now on 4K 27" with smaller font sizes, stuff looks about as good as what I had on 5K.
New York Times Quietly Scrubs Chinese Propaganda
Writting Process
He passed on a great deal of highly technical information, it wasn't napkins. It probably helped the Soviets get to a working weapon faster but it's generally accepted they'd have got there without the espionage as well.
GitHub: PR Template and Codeowners
Productive Disagreement
Implementing rANS is simpler than arithmetic coding or Huffman.
This syndrome-trellis code sounds like picture-resembling QR codes from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7348695 - here is implementation: https://github.com/JarekDuda/PRcodes/blob/master/PRcodes.cpp
"clean" because not connected to the "dirty" Chinese is pretty blatant.
The problem is someone anthropomorphized their code as “suffering” as justification to debate the color of the bike shed.
> Hopefully all that means is I'm not a real programmer.

Sadly, no, it's not just that. Most my immediate colleagues, for example, don't know of her or her work, either. It's one heck of a field.

She had expressed some dismay, in interviews, at being the first woman to win the Turing Award. Not the Turing Award part, of course, the "first woman" part. She was far from being the first deserving candidate who didn't happen to be a dude. So I hope she wouldn't mind linking this here, even today: https://www.hillelwayne.com/important-women-in-cs/
$250k is the revenue? if he wired the whole thing, who covered the costs?
Excel-powered full stack microframework
This is a sweet, sweet message man, and makes me feel good. Ultimately I think your last couple sentences really is the root of what I'm feeling. Just want them to look back on our time together in good light.
I never have a unified requirements file.
There is also one for .NET called SharpLab: https://sharplab.io/
I think this argument is more about utilizing minimalism in software design than always writing-it-yourself. IMHO many of us have seem to favor a form of feature maximalism, and perhaps we should be tempering our ambitions design-wise. Too much software has far too large a surface area.
Norwegians worship the sun when it is present and they drink more milk as adults than in other non-Nordic countries. The milk is vitamin D supplemented. Sunbeds have become unpopular recently (3 years ago there were 3 tanning salons in walking distance of me now there are none).

The reasons that the outbreak has been minimal so far here are more complex though. Norwegians natually socially distance. The joke goes, "I am glad the lockdown is over and we can go back to the usual 5 meters - having to stand 1 meter from people was too close". Basically avoiding people for a few weeks was quite easy for many Norwegians. Younger ones tend to live in one bed flats rather than flat shares. Young people don't visit their parents and grandparents as much as they probably should. Also people buy into society and trust their government here. The PM announced a crisis and most people followed the guidelines for several weeks. Compliance dropped after a few weeks but it was clearly sufficient to break the infection chains.
That's because there isn't any.
Jio going to build their own 5G equipment for installing in India and expansion to other country. Their vision is, Data is the new Oil. They are coming for USofA too.
I was a bit disappointed at how limited the linked Gamasutra's article was. For example, it didn't even mention helical keyboards that arrange letters and numbers into a 3D helix that allows very fast character selection. For example, when you can immediately see that the character you need is one and a half loops away ending on the 3 o'clock position, twirling your analog stick to that position takes a fraction of a second.
The world is definitely a better place with both of these, for no other reason than to annoy the shit out of arrogant and closed minded racists like you.
The same argument is made for not adhering to the XDG spec for user configuration files. The result is you have no real sense of specific locations for config files, shared static data, and app-generated data. If an app follows the spec you know exactly where to look. Otherwise it’s anyone’s guess.

I’ll admit this is less of a problem in project dirs, since tooling usually confines itself to a single file. But tooling outputs often similarly pollute. For example, I wish Python dumped its artifacts in a single directory I could delete, instead of in every source subdir.
What Footage of the Beirut Explosion Tells Us About the Blast