skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one is "creating" a story here. These are all valid points that are having real implications on workers. Just look at the dumpster fire that is the comments here on HN to see how polarizing this issue is when it really shouldn't be so controversial if you had any normal level of empathy for your fellow human beings. And it certainly doesn't come off as a "small minority of tech workers" when you read through these comments.

This is a totally meaningful topic to write a story on. To pretend it is a non-issue does a disservice to the problem at hand and how difficult this situation has been for many parents, especially those in companies with toxic work cultures (and there sure are a lot of those around in tech).
https://youtu.be/6Jx_bJgIFhI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

Actual mechanical pumping.
A lot of times someone like Sparkfun will have lots of developer kit items and cases. For the Jetson Nano you can do a quick Google search to find something on Etsy or Amazon.
Is abortion an ableist construct?

We can make anything ridiculous. That doesn’t mean we take it seriously.
VS Code sucks and if I were to go the route of a different app there are lot better options out there for markdown editing. This feature has a lot of amazing potential, but some people like the Apple-model so much that they'd prefer only being told what they are allowed to do.
That's two separate issues. In many existing hydro systems, the turbines are operated in reverse in order to store power.
Ah, I forgot how fun this game can be.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to blow the motherboard rather than the CPU? A compromised CPU without anything connected is pretty useless at boot. The motherboard is what’s connected to all the good stuff.
> scraping content and using the web that way

Weboob: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24022671
It really is a beautiful program, in its own way.
Ok, but you easily dug up an article that confirmed it. Even down to the number of people who were affected and the time period. But instead of just posting the source (which I do appreciate), you seem to now have a problem with the definition of the word "instance" as used to refer to the enslavement of a single human. What definition would you prefer that is more standard or appropriate?

ETA I am now reading article after article about this issue, and the fact that this particular industry seems to have cleaned up its act in 2012 doesn't make me feel better about any of it.
Companies are moving their manufacturing out of China, they were before covid and it’s accelerating now. However companies are definitely going to want to sell the the gigantic and growing Chinese market, if they can. This is especially true the longer covid keeps western economies shit down.
You are massively understating the quality of the extant evidence, meaning you are either ignorant or dishonest about this situation
The iPhone 12 will test 5G hype once and
Additional benefit: could be printed.

In high school I had to print off pages because we could only use the Internet late at night (dial-up), and definitely couldn't have the computer up and running while we were also playing a game. Pick one.

In college my Freshman computer was extremely under-powered, so it was often easier to print off a few pages of what I needed at the computer lab, and then bring them back to my dorm.

I think I still have FF7 materia print-offs in a box somewhere. :)
The issue with using natural landscapes is that it limits your height. And adding more height is ~exponentially~ (edit: quadratically) better than just adding more installations with an equivalent total height. (You can dig about a mile deep). You can see more details in my comments below - search for the text "It is worth it to dig a hole!"
Don't get caught up splitting semantic hairs: having kids takes a lot of work. That's all people mean when they refer to it as a "job"
Seems something between "a house full of booby traps" and "toxic waste" is a pretty reasonable description of a Tesla... <grin>
> A few posters here would love to be in that environment

I'm sure there are a few spiteful posters, but I think a lot of the posters would love to be in an environment where everyone would be okay with regards to food and healthcare even if they were let go.
I remember playing with this game back in high school. Was my first practical introduction to logical operators and binary. Ended up spending so much time trying to build some basic electronics once I found out how to build logic gates.

No idea if these still work, but kinda cool looking back on them, ten years later.
Here's a fairly simple 4 bit adder with display and memory https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=12853.
Powder toy was never complete without some kind of explosive, so here's a grenade that proved quite popular https://powdertoy.co.uk/Browse/View.html?ID=6390.
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The biggest chunk is due to the US's (and much of the rest of the world's) lock-down policies.

I am not a parent, but I am disgusted that so many in society would wish to knowingly ruin childrens' lives all over the world just to continue living through this obscene assault upon humanity. Even if we were to buy the absurd notion that we will save substantial numbers of lives by forcing kids to go to school remotely, what the hell kind of cost is that? To immeasurably harm a kid's upbringing - where they need the guarantees of a stable and loving environment the most?

It is completely ludicrous, superstitious, and specious to shut down our public school systems over a respiratory illness that statistically kids do not commonly catch nor transmit. We have endured far worse than this while we simply sat and did nothing. And those times, we didn't end up with a battered economy and massive increases in famine in the developing world, like we are now.

Few countries in the modern world would be prepared to sustain the kind of long-term damage this lock-down policy is going to wreak upon us all. Especially not ones as large and sprawling as the US, with corporate interests and military campaigns ongoing all throughout the globe. There's no sense in discussing policy when clearly there's no policy on earth that could stand against the tyrannical stupidity of all the world's governments turning against their citizens.
Certainly, but it doesn’t have the same effect of having you searchable in a general database for recruiters. I don’t need to share network updates but I do want to be able to look for jobs and have someone be able to offer interesting opportunities.

Ideally these connections are all personal anyway and you get poached because somebody knows you, but it’s nice to stay tapped into that virtually as well.
I am beyond sick of this "security" justification being used for everything. At the end of the day, the only thing really being secured are the greedy vendor's profits.
The counter argument (Mariana Mazzucato in particular) is that they extract value rather than create value, and this, like all other value extraction, is a net harm.
This will be an interesting mess on eBay.
@phist_mcgee Here's my read of the same comment:

- The commenter is skeptical of the quality of Western media

- Commenter provides an anecdotal data point, which is by definition not reliable but provides some grounds for skepticism

- Human rights abuses have been and still are an issue in the United States. I would argue here that the comparison to China is facile at best but I understand the point being made.

You may have some strong counter arguments but starting off by accusing the commenter of being a "PLA" or "CCP" agent is undermining them.
K-9 Mail is available in the F-Droid store:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9/
I managed to get that much from the article but I still feel I'm missing a few pieces here. Are UEFI rootkits an actual concern, like are they common in the wild? Why should the responsibility of detecting them rest with the processor? How is this related to the Secure Encrypted Virtualization?
The title as submitted to HN is super clickbaity. Overall this doesn't seem 'bad', aside from some questionable defaults that other commenters said about it being enabled by default.
The cars are that much better, and you do own them.
The left are actively hunting down and murdering Trump-supporters: https://www.wsj.com/articles/police-investigating-antifa-sup...

And here they are celebrating the death of that innocent man minutes later: https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1299960525120352258
I feel like Amazon customer service has been known to be pretty generous about stuff like this. They really want your future business.

I once ordered 5 stools, and they delivered 25. It wasn't a scam, it was a genuine dispatching mistake on Amazon's part. I let them know, and their response was to just keep or "dispose" of the extra stools.

(I ended up donating them to a local piano teacher.)
Well obviously the performance is going to be terrible, but it's probably better than the zero performance you get if you block everything while waiting for the system to fully restore from backup.

> what happens when someone runs find on that volume?

It stalls until all the directories are restored? And hopefully pushes those directories to the front of the to-be-restored-from-backup queue, but even without that it's still better than not being able to run any operations on that volume.
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The Logo Meme of Apple Event (Black Tortoise)
https://1024.com/a/1182
What are they patenting ?

I note from the website: "Our patented technology is based on a simple principle ..."

I think it's a great idea but I don't see what there is to patent or what IP they could defend ...
This may well be a case of the vendor does this, they get a better price as removes all aspects of reselling the CPU's on and the whole grey market risk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_market

Large vendor, such details may mean a few dollars saving on the CPU's and that will add up. For many it won't be an issue, more a gotcha for the second hand market upon those thinking they can buy and part it out. So down the line, this is going to make some second hand CPU's a real gotcha unless these chips have identifiable visible marking.
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Yet all the millions in bond issues don’t address that? That’s mismanagement, not lack of funding.
I've been working in the web performance monitoring space (https://speedcurve.com/) for 3 years now, and the 3 years prior to that I was doing a lot of performance work at the BBC. I can't share the data for obvious reasons but I can confidently say that the web is getting measurably slower every year, despite connection speeds increasing drastically over the last few years.

We like to over-simplify and try to attribute it to things like JS frameworks, advertising, media-heavy pages, etc. The truth is that it is all of these things, and so much more. Yes, devices are more powerful, but we are also asking our devices to do more. Yes, connections are faster, but bandwidth doesn't help with things like TCP slow start or browser concurrency limits. On top of all of this, our perception of speed is changing, so things can _feel_ slower than they really are.
Personally I think that there needs to be fundamental structural tax reform. To the degree that Intuit's business model goes away.

But Intuit probably owns all of the decision makers somehow. Which to me means that there needs to be radical government reform.

I actually believe that government and money need to be radically modified and modernized.
Blaming aftermarket parts for non related failures is very common for luxury brands especially German ones: Audi & Mercedes are biggest culprits.

Some Audi dealers would void almost your entire power train warranty for simple things like an aftermarket cold air intake.
Is there any guarantee each vendor will only ever use one signing key? Or might we have problems swapping from one Dell to another Dell, for example?
Maybe not, but software can help. I personally block many time wasting websites that I impulsively browse (like hn...), when I’m working and it honestly helps a lot.
Not sure what you mean. You're welcome to hand-write all of your web apps from the ground up with zero dependencies and no build system. It's still the web.
> I would also add that one should not be discriminated against for wanting to only work 40 hours a week, especially in a salaried job. There should not be peer pressure and possible loss of promotion if others around you work 60 hours and you only work 40.

All else being equal, I believe the new college graduate who regularly puts in extra hours (whether for work directly or on side projects) is likely to get better faster than someone who puts in 33% fewer hours. In that regard, they’ll have earned a promotion earlier in calendar time. You didn’t lose a promotion; they just earned one faster than you.

In such a case, you weren’t (unfairly) discriminated against; someone else just got better faster and got promoted based on merit.
Thanks for the link and apologies for the skepticism. I didn't know we had systems that basically slosh water from upper to lower during high demand and lower to upper during low demand to even out capacity.
Mind give an estimate when China will collapse?
That's pretty clever! I would guess that wind turbine towers are mainly loaded in bending, and an extra compression load wouldn't hurt much as long as it doesn't cause buckling.
Reveal codes should be part of any rich text editor. Ever sat wondering why pressing return added a new bullet to a list rather than a gap to the text preceding it? I see it all the time while watching engineers and manager using tools like Jira, Confluence etc. Reveal codes would make it plainly obvious - the cursor was after the list start but before first bullet.
I’ve often thought I’d like to spend some days writing ncurses interfaces in Guile.

http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-ncurses/

The documentation always inspired confidence. Sadly haven’t written anything more than hello world.
Antifa isn't a group they are just a right-wing strawman.
> completely new type of vaccine

Then is it a vaccine at all? Vaccines were traditionally live, dead, or attenuated virus/bacteria injections, some with adjutants, to stimulate an immune response.

Technologically speaking, it's bicycle vs airplane. Similar underlying purpose, entirely different implementation.
Is there any way to “fix” the processor afterwards? Maybe send it to AMD to be reset? If I’m buying a multi thousand dollar processor, I’d feel better if I could reuse it in other systems if needed.
I can't agree more. Using electron to make a simple program into a 200MB behemoth just so you can draw a window and some text with javascript is a slap in the face to your users.

The binary size on windows is actually only 268KB
I would argue that it just makes learning easier. But that's not the point. The point is to make the repair process more efficient for everyone, including those sharing their knowledge.
Most people, web developers included, don't have the luxury to quit their job every time they disagree with the decisions being made for them.
I'm now imagining sitting stationary in a tunnel while traffic tries to get around me with "us-east-1 is currently experiencing service disruption" prominently displayed on my "Infotainment" screen...
> with internal top leadership conflict

Source? My understanding is Xi has pretty effectively consolidated power, and such internal struggles would be pretty opaque to everyone who doesn't have access to a well-connected CCP member.

It does look like they're expecting a period of increased isolation in the future though: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/business/china-xi-economy...
chrome://flags/#native-file-system-api

I already had it disabled before LOL
It seems like I can replace an Electron app which only needs (a part) of File System access to browser.
https://1024.com/a/1182
Why and what would Pakistan speak out??
Can an instant pot not operate as a slow cooker? I have a non instant pot electric pressure cooker, and it slow cooks great!

Second your running shoes as well, much less ankle pain for me compared to more cushioned shoes. I think that because they punish you more for bad form, you learn to run more naturally, at least that’s what happened for me!
I keep hearing this come up. Do you have a modern citation for this with modern monitors, say made within the last 5 years?

It seems to be a constantly repeated myth or something of no consequence. (one article I read said LCDs have 2 ms higher latency than CRTs, which I would count as of no consequence)
How is this any different then old-school CRPG's and needing to make your own map using graph paper of dungeons?

I remember NEEDING to do this in Pools of Radiance (IIRC), just to get around the dungeon, and make sure I found everything on the level. For those that don't remember the game, you moved one square at a time in a N,E,S,W direction. one move = one square on the graph paper.

No helpful pointer arrows like on Skyrim. You had to take notes, and map out the levels. It was far too easy to spend hours in a dungeon never finding the the door to get to the treasure/clue/quest item.

So some of these guides would be no different then sharing those maps with friends. Of course I had no friends at the time. ;-)
Yeah, this would be similar to what energyvault.com is doing. I love that energy vault got funding ($110M) and is pushing the industry forward. But IMHO, I ultimately don't think they will be able to compete with underground gravity storage because of the massive 10x advantage you get from digging underground and getting 10x more height (see my other comments below why that is.)
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Yeah, vim doesn't really do format at all.

That being said, I feel like Latex has just too many features - making it more like words. I like .md format much better particularly a blend of markdown and latex for the occasional need of equations.

I feel like eventually we'll return to the root of writing - to communicate. That process can take years but I'm so so happy that light formats like markdown is making inroads to businesses.
Nope, because the connection to that remote host was established when we were using the local host's /net. This is one of the other key features of Plan 9: per-process namespaces (inherited by children). Only programs inheriting the current process's namespace will use the imported network stack: you open a shell, you run "import remote /net" to bring in the remote network stack, then you run your network applications within that shell. Applications in any other shell will use the regular local network stack. After importing /net from the remote host, you could also run `rio` in that shell, which will start a new instance of the GUI nested within that window, in which all applications will use the imported stack.
I guess it might the same story with the clip you linked as it was with this other instance of a lot of local news channels all saying the same thing: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/4/2/17189302/si...
people have children for selfish reasons, not because of some responsibility to society. That’s just hogwash.
> For the fourth, I'm going to borrow your war example. If half the country believes in the war in Eurasia and carries it out, and half the country believes in the war in Eastasia and carries it out, are not both sides partially correct? In that case, would they not be better served by seeing the entire truth of the situation, instead of being limited to news sources that serve only one of the stories?

Just realized, I dropped half of this.

The other half is that each of these news sources should have different perspectives on these wars. Perhaps one should go over why the war's are a bad idea, and another should go over why they are necessary. However, the only way to make a good choice is to make sure that all information and multiple perspectives are available.
This is a very interesting solution: in effect _remove_ our interventions.

If done cautiously, it could be very effective.

Some of the counter to it could look like this:

a. "Addicting" can be another synonym for "something people want, despite themselves", which means that it may not be up to Facebook:

- If you remove sugar from snickers for example, it doesn't immediately follow that they will eat less sugar: they could just as well buy kit kats instead.

The interesting question could be: how can we remove the machine learning intervention, while keeping engagement high?
I get why its done, but all this locking down of modern systems is making me rapidly lose interest in computing.
Here is a reference for when this last came up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24382203
> opinion drivel

This is really the mark of 24-hour cable news. The one-hour nightly news is probably better.
This happens to me a lot, but my use case is "watching" full music albums all day. Usually halfway through every other album it will pause and ask I'm "still watching".

I usually just use the media controls on my keyboard to un-pause it without actually clicking the modal.
I think you may have replied to the wrong comment - parent didn't mention anything about sending somebody a portion of their paycheck each month. Maybe a different thread?
You mean like the ones made up before every major US military intervention in the last 30 years? Some examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony?wprov=sfti1

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/feb/25/iraq.iraqan...

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/21/world/middleeast/iraqi-re...
Maybe it'd be slightly disingenuous, but I wish they were time stretched to match up syllable-for-syllable.
[edit: moved my root post here, because you are dead on]

(re)Publishing statements from police/Gov/bigcorp - verbatim & w/o vetting for accuracy or context - is a scourge in local news rooms.

Bigger news orgs are absolutely guilty of this but I can pick up any local paper, anywhere/any day, and find an example. It's pretty discouraging.
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Because your contribution later in life is likely to be negative. You will be putting strain on social security, medical insurance, etc. A strain that is uncompensated by the contribution of your kids in their prime earning years.
Honestly I see this as a net positive. It increases the security of the server, which is good for everyone. The secondary market will adjust accordingly, probably by selling the processor/motherboard/barebones server together. The only issue I can see is that there is no way to distinguish a locked processor from an unlocked one.
> vaccine business

Key phrase here. Cui bono? It just so happens there are multiple, patented competing technologies hoping to get approved. The biggest advertising spenders for the media. The media hyping up a 'vaccine.' Governments handing over hundreds of billions of dollars to private corporations so they can race to release a newly patented product that they're hoping will be forced on literal billions of people.

No, it's totally all above board.
First, $500/month for each child in France is not that cheap or great, especially as you’re sacrificing earning potential.

Second, we have anecdotal data and you suggest we revamp a trillion dollar industry and incentive structure? Seems like we’re doing ok here, considering more people want to come in from France than emigrate there.
I swear the pro vaxxers are as much of a cult now as the anti vaxxers. I've been attacked so many times for simply saying that I would wait a while for results before trusting a rushed vaccine, especially one that has a massive financial upside for the creator.