skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could also be useful for movers.

Right now when it's time to carry that heavy desk, couch, piano, etc. through doorways, halls, up/down stairs, etc., two really strong people do it manually.

Imagine if they showed up with a robot that could do it. In addition to walking, it would need to understand gripping and balancing heavy objects and how to orient and maneuver 3D objects through tight 3D spaces, but I bet those things are understood well enough.
If I were a site accepting email addresses, I could see rejecting "+" stuff because chances are it's people trying to pull something funny like registering multiple accounts when I only want one per email address. If I were less confrontational I might just silently strip the "+" part.
Context: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-employ...
>it was not all that long ago that we had the "equal time" rule that required media outlets to host both liberal and conservative commentary

That only ever applied to broadcast media (and maybe only to prime-time TV). Publishers of the written word have never been required by the US government to grant equal time.

>For most of the history of the United States free speech has been more limited than it is today

I don't know what you could mean by that unless you are referring to the fact that before the internet became mainstream, you had to own a printing press or something like that to reach a mass audience.
IDK why this post is so negative. The post says it's the first release with that feature, and that things are still improving. I'm happy that it's being worked on at all and maybe a couple more releases down the road it's available to me as well. Mozilla/Firefox contributors are adding a feature here in the open but it turn out it's very complicated to add it.
I updated my youtube-dl two days ago and was able to download a file. I think the poster might have been using an outdated version. Things do change on YouTube.
It's actually worse than that - the account is indicated in the URL, but it's expressed as an offset into a list of accounts in the order you signed into them!

So a ".../mail/u/0/" means the first Google account you're logged into, ".../mail/u/1/" means the second, etc. But if you did it in a different order on a different machine (or even browser), it'll redirect to a completely different one.

I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the meeting where it was decided that was a good idea.
I don't like how ham radio broadcasts are linked to your callsign under your legal name (deadname) and identity. It creates the potential for trolls who dislike like what you say to doxx you by sharing your legal identity and mailing address (taken from websites linked to the government database of licensees).
Fair enough.

a) As I stated in the argument about the difference between discrimination against protected classes versus hosting content on a private server, I'd say that legally, these are not equivalent.

b) Ethically is an interesting question. Since the ethics of denying someone service based on their sexual orientation is largely viewed as reprehensible, maybe a better question would be whether or not (freed from questions of protected class) the baker would decorate a Nazi themed cake versus allowing federated apps that are largely used for the dissemination of white supremacist ideology to be hosted?

c) In principle, I'd say they are not equivalent for the following reason: selling and decorating a cake is a business transaction between two entities. The cake (decorated or not) ownership moves from producer to consumer. The consumer is purchasing a physical cake. If the cake is ever made public, it is at the behest of the purchasers of the cake, and any consequences of that public display will be suffered by the purchaser. Essentially, the baker's name is not on the cake, and no one needs to know.

Hosting apps or other contents affects the reputation of the hosting company, and damages to their business reputation fall on it. Think about Facebook being recognized as a conduit for foreign interference in U.S. elections, or whether or not the New York Times will accept ad content from an adult video company. The name on the masthead is the entity that suffers the damage first.
Block cookies on medium.com. You'll never have to deal with login/payment prompts again. (In the past, it has responses though, but the sidebar still works now.)

EDIT: I block cookies on many news sites as well. It bypasses paywalls on many sites (but not FT).
I see that raised a lot as a concern but I can’t imagine it has any legs nowadays.

Previously, in the 1980’s, yes I could see a Taxi/Plumber/etc using amateur radio equipment as a cheaper workaround for their business, but now it’s so much cheaper (and better) to use cellular or, if you really needed business radios they aren’t crazy expensive as they once were.
Is that a real issue? A sticker is enough to impact a wifi antenna enough that people would notice?
What makes you think it wasn't?
[Veritasium] Is Success Luck or Hard Work?
I've seen articles about the success/hard work debate floating around here in the past. Since this was just posted today I feel like everyone might like to see this.
The Origins of Sprawl
Argon2 in data independent or hybrid mode, specifically.
Found the killer.
It's the anniversary of the publication of (the first volume of) The Count of Monte Cristo
Congratulations, both for the idea and for the literature you chose the Count of Montecristo and Great Expectations, for different reasons are among my preferred books.

The Journal des Debats is available online.

The Conte of Montecristo was published according to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo#Publ...

> from 28 August 1844 to 15 January 1846

The original (book) has 117 Chapters:
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0720/2007023856.html

As a matter of fact the first date there is chapter 1:

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k446668c.item

And on the last date ther is chapter 117:

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k447166b/

And an indication that it is the fourth "part" and the dates where the previous "sub-parts" were published.

They are not sequential (i.e. every day), and they have long gaps, so, without checking the exact dates, it seems plausible that it was actually pubished in 117 times.
Today is the anniversary of the publication of the first installment of "The Count of Monte Cristo" in the newspaper "Journal des Débats"(in 1884).

I had the site ready for launch today and already including "The Count of Monte Cristo", but I pushed the book to be the first one on the list and mention it in the title precisely because of the Google Doodle.
Most people use queues to do this. At least I do.
Just call and email your target market. Honestly most of the time people don't want to do it, but that's all you have to do. And it's hard. But hammer away at it. Also approaching clients on LinkedIn. You can arrange to speak at events as well and produce great content for online marketing, but in the end, just contact people directly.
If anything the instances I have visited have been cleaner than twitter and Facebook. On Twitter and in Facebook comments I've seen some serious hate speech.
Ethereum Is a Dark Forest
>Does that mean murder should be legal?

The forms which have little agreement? Probably.

For example, some say that meat is murder. I don't think we should be outlawing meat, and thus in the eyes of the ones making such a statement, I'm supporting some forms of murder remaining legal.
What's the sentiment around privacy-focused projects like Monero, Zcash, etc in your area?
Much as I might agree with the sentiment, the post title is massively editorializing and should change to the title of the original. Thems the rules round here.
Wow the number of typos in this comment. I shouldn't type on a broken screen.
The guy in this thread being downvoted clearly has a political bias but the part of his argument advocating for access to the raw original length video is reasonable.

If youtube wants to disable comments, throw up warnings or blur out gore then fine but suppressing media from a highly politically charged situation is a mistake.
In what way is btrfs a trash fire? Works fine for me.
I cannot emphasize enough that the real-value of On Deck is not just the events and investors you are going to get access to, or those fireside chats, but the community.

On Deck hand picked highly ambitious people with positive attitudes, who are in similar stages of their lives and have shared goals.

It is like being in a room with a ton of sharp, likeminded people such as yourself, and everyone is looking to help one another to build the next big thing.

Truly inspiring and accelerating experience.

Happy to answer any questions about my experience in On Deck.
One of the few "perfect mornings" in my life was a day off during a Portland business trip: with a Stumptown coffee, a Voodoo donut, and Powell's. Simply magical.
Ask HN: How do I become an advisor to a startup?
I have a passion for healthcare technology, and product development. I would love to slowly enter into the space. Here are some areas I would love to contribute into:

- Minimizing the reliance on monolithic insurance

- EHR / EMR Analytics

- Minimize the gap of knowledge between consumer and insurance by increasing medical transparency

- Making doctors' lives more efficient.

How can I work with founders / find startups and become an advisor? This is one idea I had to enter the space. CMV if I am thinking in the wrong direction.
I agree. I thought there would be evidence in the article but I couldn't find any. The Internet (with net neutrality) is critical infrastructure. But some tech company's product definitely isn't.
Boeing and NASA target December for second try at uncrewed orbital demonstration
The XKCD cartoon isn't talking about a literal plus symbol.

If you took it literally that would imply the actual email address is a single letter @gmail.com and although some ex-SRE people and others at Google have said there were ways to get short addresses for employees, nobody has suggested a single letter would be available even for them. For normal users the minimum was six characters.
Maybe the maintainers can start charging for feature requests. This might deter the rudeness.
Because it is illegal (and morally wrong) to treat people differently because of who they are, not what they say or do.
Redis Labs developed all the modules (RedisSearch, RedisGraph, etc). Those are all licensed in such a way that Amazon cannot rehost them.
Please make me some AI that can clean my toilet, do my laundry and make me a ham sandwich. This will be the revolution.
> Countries in Europe have some pretty huge restictions on speech that go far behind things like making death threats and fraud illegal.

So does the US.
Don't forget Twitter and Facebook. Twitter/Facebook basically created hate speech, by the way.
Yeah, when Zoom went down the other day at work we just used the Google Meet link directly from the gcal invites.

Like any mission critical infrastructure, it's up to organizations to have some redundancy. Nothing new.
I personally don't know, but neither have Chrome or Firefox done anything to block hate speech websites, and they're allowed to exist just fine.

Twitter actually hosts the trashpile, they're more responsible for it than some app that just lets you access trashpiles on third party servers.
On Windows the easiest is probably through reasonml. You get two runtimes out of the box but you are a few releases behind (depending on Bucklescript). The alternative is to use WSL. Ubuntu stock opam is out of date though. The distribution side of ocaml is definitely less than desirable, which is why I only use it to target js. Reasonml as js frontend is hard to beat experience wise.
I'm confused. Do people just assume they can think of an email address and Google somehow knows and assigns it to them automatically?

Like they're signing up for something and put in "santosh83@gmail.com" and think "My name is Santosh and I was born in '83. Google obviously knows this and will send me this email!" ????????
No, he did not "pick up" that address. Google won't issue a second address that matches the concatenation of the characters without dots. So, if I have john.smith@gmail.com, Google will not issue anyone else johnsmith@, j.ohnsmith@, joh.nsmith@gmail.com or any other combination to another user.

What does often happen is that people FORGET what their actual email address is when they hand it out to other people or write it down on forms. Or their friends or family mis-remember it. Your doppleganger may have actually been issued the address johnny.smith, or smith.johnny, but just forgets.
I would highly recommend reading Kent Beck's book. He walks you through the entire process. He has two examples, one in Java and one in Python. Both are readable even if you do not program in either language.
Thank you, I purchased the book!
I just find it frustrating that your comment is "i'm a google engineer and I hate the language and so does everyone else at google" but you refuse to explain why you feel that way. As someone who likes go, I find this comment to be basically "go is bad because google engineers dont like it" which is the exact type of appeal to authority/cargo culting you seem to be criticizing.

If you're going to trash something at least put in enough effort to explain yourself. Otherwise I think this thread was better off without your comment.
Definitely not common but I can think of a few cases. Global rate limiting data store for example.
It has been shown time and time again that giving unrestricted uncensored access to billions will lead to the worst ideas proliferating. Look at QAnon and conspiracy theories running wild. Look anti-vaxxers and how America, one of the most advanced countries in the world, is now having Measles outbreaks after decades of having nearly 0 cases. Look at how simple things such as wearing a mask has become a controversial topic.

Yes, everyone would obviously prefer a fully open and uncensored platform, but the reality is that those are very easy for bad actors to take advantage of. So many things on the web is disappearing thanks to these bad actors. Public APIs are getting locked down, Catpchas everywhere, passwords and 2fa are getting increasingly more complicated, and so on.

If you really think every platform should be 100% open, you live in an idealistic universe that is not this one. The whole idea of "the solution to bad speech is more speech" simply does not work. It just doesn't.
We can start small and demand removal of the gmail app, first. Baby steps.
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I actually tried that, and it has its own downsides. Sometimes pages get icons by drawing from characters in higher codepoints, and so the icons will get randomly replaced with Greek letters and random symbols.
The thing that still frustrates me about Pluto is that I have to put a `begin ... end` block in each cell where I want multiple commands to run. It would be nice if it ran more like Jupyter notebooks in this sense, where blocks can be blocks of code and not individual lines.
Seems like another one of those, pay 2,000 for access groups that entirely expects to rent seek on what is essentially a really good irc group (which are FREE to start and join). Essentially like paying a match maker to set you up on dates instead of finding them organically
Kind of reminded me of Elder Scrolls 1 : Arena.
Yes that should be fine. For incremental installation, there is a `dune build -x` which builds using a particular cross-compilation toolchain. MirageOS builds everything in one go, but it can be broken up too (as opam itself does).
Why call it a shift of target?

If I have to get groceries, but to do that I have to put on my shoes first, is that then a shift of target?

We just have to make sure that in X years, the trade agreements have been updated. We can leave the rest to the politicians.
You can in the US. Look it up:

>Hate speech in the United States is not regulated due to the robust right to free speech found in the American Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech is legally protected free speech under the First Amendment. The most recent Supreme Court case on the issue was in 2017, when the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no "hate speech" exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment.

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

Hate speech in the United States is not regulated by any government. Google is considered by the courts to be non-governmental, so the courts will not prevent Google from regulating hate speech on the platforms it owns as Google sees fit.
And anyone who says that's wrong to do is very disingenuous. That is a very legitimate business model, and IMO the only way to compete with AWS as an open source product.
For similar reasons, I'm probably gonna set up a small wiki instance as my personal blog. Nobody else can edit (unless I feel like extending an invitation), but it's a CMS I already know, markup I already know, has robust history tracking which I value, and makes categorization and linking trivial.
I wrote about this issue on my blog. Basically just using email aliases on a custom domain to enable per-provider filtering, and deletion of the alias if they ignore unsubscribe requests or get hacked. https://jonpurdy.com/2020/06/using-email-aliasing-to-detect-...
r/wallstreetbets is a good place to investigate this.
In my experience the 16" MBP is just bad. This is my first Apple laptop and it's pretty, but that's about it. Despite having a serious horsepower (on paper) the fan runs constantly while doing basic tasks, I get tons of beachballs, and my wireless mouse has to plugged into a specific port or it's janky as hell. It's not intuitive (for me) or performant. It's not even a good linux stand in.

My takeaway from this whole experience is that computer people will give up practicality for fashion just as much as anyone else.
The reason is because those services don't use an email confirmation process, either because they don't know better, or because they are email marketers who are happy to have every address that they can get and don't really care who gets their mail (the email equivalent of writing "OR CURRENT RESIDENT" on postal mail)
>You can't have anti-semitic, racist, homophobic speech without breaking some laws

In what jurisdiction? In the US, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action is a very high bar to clear, compared to other countries.
Given that WASD is a standard in gaming I'm surprised by this approach. Do many games / game engines use key position? Isn't it easier to just add key remapping so outliers can configure freely?
That works when the teacher is technically minded. My wife is staff for an art department at a community college and many of the professors don't even know how to create spreadsheets. Having them switch from D2L to Zoom to Hangouts from day to day is not an option.

In the long view, the younger teachers are more able to learn the new technologies and switch new technologies. But we have to support the professors that are 5 years from retirement now.
Nonfiction Book Fact Checking Should Be an Industry Standard
Something doesn't feel right about this. There could be many reasons why a project doesn't get as many commits for a little while. I don't think this counts as significant new information (SNI: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22significant%20new%20informa...). Singling one project out for drama as a way of putting pressure on people doesn't feel right, nor in keeping with the intended spirit of HN.

I've changed the title to make it less dramatic ("Had to choose this dramatic title to get some attention"? not here, please) and I think this is a rare case where we should probably kill the thread.
Yup, this article misses the difference between a mission critical category of tools vs a single mission critical piece of infrastructure. If your organization has a backup solution like Meet (which is easy to do) Zoom stops being mission critical.

I think at work we have three IT-approved solutions: Zoom, Meet, and Slack calls (which are admittedly much more limited).

> organizations aren’t going to want to pay for licenses to non-Zoom videoconferencing platforms that they may rarely or never need.

Yeah..so what does this have to do with Zoom? If my organization refuses to pay for anything but Meet we have the exact same issue.
> And "when Zoom goes down, teachers can’t teach"? Come on. I am a college professor. In my class this fall I met my students on Blackboard on Day 1 and Zoom on Day 2. If one of them goes down for the day, we'll switch to the other.

I think it's for real. Think about elementary school instead. The kids are just learning to use computers. Their parents may be also, and if not they may be trying to do their own work from home while the kids are in class. There are many low-income and/or ESL families. Even the teachers aren't tech experts.

In my son's kindergarten class, everyone got school-supplied Chromebooks. They all have Google accounts for Google Classroom. That probably means they could switch to Google Hangouts Meet, but it wouldn't be smooth. They'd at least miss a day, and subsequent days would be rocky. The teacher has invested a lot of effort just in teaching the kids how to mute and unmute themselves without waiting for their grown-up to help, and they'd have to go through that again with a different UI.
It’s a shame there isn’t seamless ability to Facetime with Android users like there is to make a voice call or text with them. We (read: tech community and/or society) should fix this. It’d be in society’s interest if a video call between android and Apple was as easy as a voice call is. (and I do think Facetime between Apple users is this easy... I sometimes use Facetime purely because my WiFi is a little better than my cell signal).
The 'Noobs' and low hanging fruit do. Fortunately the internet can be used to educate, guide and inform.
I have a T440s and a T470. Right now I am using the T440s, because there was record rainfall in my city, and it is humid as hell, and the T470 crashed soon after starting - I think because of humidity. It was working just fine last night after which I had to open all the windows because I lost power.

The T440s doesn't even care.
I am a college professor. In my class this fall I met my students on Blackboard on Day 1 and Zoom on Day 2. If one of them goes down for the day, we'll switch to the other.

That's great for college. Not every educational experience is in a college with a big fat IT department to support it.

Think elementary and secondary schools. According to the newspapers this week, the school district where I live has 27,000 students unable to get computers to go online because there simply aren't affordable, or sometimes ANY, computers available for either the parents or the district to buy.

Another 20,000 have no internet access, so the school district rolls out hotspots on school buses each day to the worst-affected neighborhoods.

Do you really think tens of thousands of students will have no problem switching from one piece of software to another? Let alone the millions of ESL and low-literacy parents and students across the nation.
volatile is required (but not sufficient) for thread coordination, at least in C++03 and C99. That's why boost atomics uses volatile extensively.
California's “Consumer Protection” bill will help Amazon and hurt small business
I use a similar behavior with the plus symbol to identify who leaks me email address.
Ask HN: Favorite hack for determining a market?
Authors like Rob Walling and Pat Flynn or course creators like Amy Hoy have these ways to try to figure out if there is a market for an idea.

What is your current favorite hack for figuring out if people are willing to pay for something before you create an idea?
If you've only visited the first Powell's on the south side of Chicago (Hyde Park), you'll be blown by the Portland location. It truly is a book lovers paradise.