skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ask for specifics because I know all the general arguments around it. I asked about what was specifically untrue, I have not read solid criticisms of it that cast serious doubt on its factual claims, only that it shows history from a certain perspective, which (to be fair to Zinn here) is evident in the title.
Hi! Didn’t know about the Libre Office copy/paste issue. Will give it a look. You can use the lib for free btw, as long as you don’t mind displaying the branding link.

Nice project btw :-)
having been employed by agencies directly, and having worked as a freelancer working with agencies as well as other businesses directly, these rates are right in line with my experience.
Rand wrote fiction, not even anything purporting to be history.
Comparing Sweden with its neighbours really highlights how poorly it has done: https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=fin&areas=swe&are...

Pretty much any way you slice the data, a lot more people died in Sweden than in its neighbours.

You can see the same pattern in excess all cause mortality too: Denmark 200, Finland 600, Norway 0, Iceland 0, Sweden 5500.

Now Sweden has a population slightly less than Finland and Norway combined, and figures can be difficult to compare, but still it's hard to avoid the conclusion that so far, around 4000 people in Sweden have died because of differences in policy compared to its neighbours.
It took me a fair amount of searching to establish that ESC refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
FBI director says antifa is an ideology, not an organization, in testimony
iirc analysis of the utility indicated it was not using tensor features at all, which is why it was trivial to unlock on older cards.
Because you exist within a system whether you like it or not, so the optimal/correct solution must account for those variables, including your ability to entice cooperation. So yes, you would still be wrong, just not for the narrow way you’re choosing to redefine “correct.”
Thanks for clarifying. It would be interesting to know what portion of pirates cant afford the game and what the conversion rate is.

I suspect we each have our own anecdotal experience and there isn't clear data one way or another. For example, I have known probably two dozen pirates and every single one of them could afford the games but were just frugal. Probably half would have bought the game at if it was the only option, and half the games would not be bought at any price. Perhaps 1/20 somehow led to a conversion for disabled functionality.

I have never once met someone who bought a game after having installed a fully functional crack.

Also, part of the point of DRM is to make it more complicated to pirate and instal a game, even if the crack is available.
We can sit here and argue all day around this and we still won't reach an agreement.

On one hand, as a website operator, I want to prevent DDOS, spam etc... for my website. I can implement these solutions myself and do a bad job, or I can use Cloudflare that solves most of then. It's probably going to rule out some of the users as yourself - which is a shame. But until there's a better way to know that a visitor from the internet is not trying to attack the website, I'd have to use something like Cloudflare.

On the other hand, it's not like it's that hard to leave Cloudflare for me - so if there's a better alternative without causing legitimate users pain, I'd be happy to jump on board.
I think that is his point.
Harnessing wind energy with kites to create renewable electricity
I don't have a problem giving them $360, I have a problem giving them $360 again next year to tweak a design I made last year.

Software subscriptions for hobbies are crazy, because who knows if I'm even going to use it ever again, yet all my effort is lost if I'm not paying them.

The old permanent license model is much better for hobbyist, if you need a new feature, then give them more money, but they aren't holding your creativity hostage if you only spent 10 mins messing with your hobby for 6 months.
Are you implying they're not connected, that discrimination and diversity are unrelated? Your wording makes it sound like some kind of political debate trap you're setting. FWIW, I'm uninterested in arguing here why and whether there should be such laws, or justifying efforts to prevent discrimination. The existence of these laws is a fact, and you're free to study the history and legal precedents for why they exist. Here's a generic but decent starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination
Just imagine having the OG handle[1] joe@aol.com. That person either has some credibility as being around for quite a while, or paid quite a bit for it.

1: I didn't make up the terminology, I'm just using it because it exists...
The Rust version has that same tradeoff; the string can't be deallocated until all the tokens' lifetimes have ended. (In this particular use case, that's not really a cost, since you probably need to keep the string available the whole time anyway.)

Go, which is garbage-collected, also does the slice-by-reference trick (but fails criterion #1 because it doesn't really have iterators).
Sure, I would agree that it is not exclusive.
Zinn explicitly disregards objectivity -- he is telling his own truth with a goal to shape society to be more Marxist.
Quite a bit of the people's history of the united states is primary sources.

Zinn decided to bias the viewpoint towards oppressed people, the same way many textbooks bias it in favor of the 'winning' party. While I felt like I got a pretty decent education in high school history, Zinn didn't invalidate what I learned but showed quite clearly how these things affected others.

When I was in school it would have been highly controversial to compare chattel slavery or the conquering of the New World to the holocaust but the reality is the severity is similar, just on a different timeframe.
And in that quote, Zinn explicitly mentions he doesn’t believe in “people’s ability to make it better”:

I was no longer a liberal, a believer in the self-correcting character of American democracy
>>(Don't assume that HTTPS is keeping you safe.)

>Why?

because https depends on certificate authorities and CAs depend on coercible companies which depend on governments from not molesting them.

The existence of QUANTUM INSERT and FOXACID attacks show CA-based authentication is weak (either due to their keys being compromised or coerced). DigitNotar also got pwned.

Strong authentication is one of the unrivaled advantages to onion addresses in tor.

The CIA also advocates to not solely rely on TLS for transport encryption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24426818
No hard and fast rules, but generally: founders have to be present before founding (incorporation) - this usually means they will be doing work for free before that time; in many cases, founders may also need to put in money. (Once you're founded, people can't work for free anymore.)
This is what made me technically an early employee rather than a founder of one of my most successful startups - I was one of a handful of peopl who put time, but no cash, into the company - we were the first employees, but that didn't happen until the VC's check was in the bank. (We were somewhat unusually seed-funded by a VC firm.) Those of us who passed on being founders either didn't have the cash or had to keep other jobs until the newco could make a firm offer of employment. (I more or less told them, "Great, I'll help plan and strategize over beer at the pub after work. Other than that, call me when you have money.)
Then there are all the differences in stock class, grants vs. options vs. warrants, etc. Usually, though it's pretty clear who were the actual founders - they're the ones with the original idea, who worked (maybe with the help of others) to get it to the point that a company actually could be founded to go forward.
BTW, founders aren't permanent - the one I mentioned had to rid itself of nearly a half dozen of them in the startup process. This is usually done with option grants or the like and a solid time-limited no-compete. I know another who's reformed his company three times to force bad people out. It's amazing what good lawyers can do for the people who control the company.
>They can do whatever they want, of course. But don't kid yourself about the reasons.

Isn't the people kidding themselves that ones that consider it a "strange" or "troubling" reason that a company has a product and wants to sell that product?
Reminds me of this article on HackerNews a little while ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368888
Okay, you are right. I would not dismiss them either for this alone, I would first perhaps ask them why they think that it is the best option, or what alternatives there are, and so forth.

> Give me the last two octets of your APIPA address

Is not APIPA Windows-only, by the way?

I can definitely give you two octets of an IP address through using awk, sed, or using C and bitwise operations. Do I pass? :D
I would still have a proper judge made a decision than Facebook. I can easily block people that share BS on Facebook but I don't want Facebook to make that decision for me. That overrides my own choice to follow them in the first place.
For electrics - Rex Cauldwell's "Wiring a House" is written in an accessible manner that shouldn't send you to Google too often. A copy of the NEC helps if you want to really understand everything (or being willing to dig through contractor forums to understand oddball situations) but is overkill for most. The book is mostly about thinking about how to wire a house than prescriptive "this is how it must be done."

I've worked with lots of electricians over the years and the majority of the things in that book reflect the best practices I've seen. Things that don't go out of style like making choices that are respectful of the next person who will work on something. The thing that does go out of style is the NEC it is based on as the latest edition is from 2014 so some specifics may start to be incorrect but by and large it is still applicable.
Money, they divided all the money company had in form of super high paychecks and bonuses.
This is absolutely not true, gaming focused Geforce cards have intentionally firmware crippled 64bit float performance, and the Quadro firmware flashes unlocked it.
Yes, of course. And in 1980 that was a really important contribution. But in many cases it’s just become a different narrative that’s accepted uncritically as truth.
>Does the park cease to be nice if non-residents are allowed into it?

Yes, if there are too many of them and they act irresponsibly.

>Should a city be able to decide whether non-residents can use its sidewalks, in order to make the city "nice"?

Yes

Are you willing to pay a fee to enter such a city, to offset the costs of your visit?
This is true of all history, regardless of political viewpoint. There is no such thing as objective explanation of history.
And they have just added background blur.
It looks like you replied to the wrong sibling comment.
Just in case people don't know, although the name sounds French I've literally never seen one in France. I guess it's like Mexico's Taco Bell or something
"We've opened up factories" implies "So we're fine," but even with these new production lines, we'll still be shy a billion or so masks the first year. That's a connection, in my opinion, justifying the "ignores that reality."

The dozens of clips circulating from March through last week where he publicly says the virus will just "disappear" are, pretty obviously, a conscious ignorance of the reality. (Since, as we've seen, warm weather nor a few months of time have stopped the pandemic.)

The only way you could even charitably say that he's not "consistently ignoring the reality" of the pandemic would be by pointing out the exceptions to those public comments -- his private, recorded comments to Woodward earlier this year where he acknowledged the deadly impact and aerosol nature of the virus.

There are tons of articles about Trump's handling of the virus with perspectives you might appreciate more; perhaps you could submit some to HN for discussion. Here are some helpful suggestions: The Daily Caller, Breitbart, and PatriotNewsEagleFreedom1776.
Just ask people if they think climate change is an existential threat. If they answer yes (as will most people who are opposed to nuclear energy) then ask them if they think nuclear energy is an existential threat too or just extremely dangerous.

If the answer is "just extremely dangerous" then the choice is simple. Actually, I can't understand why all those who are predicting doomsday scenarios because of climate change aren't storming the streets with big pro-nuclear energy signs.
> I interpret this news as "it's not coming back".

No need for interpretation, they state it flat out:

"In the intervening period [since the temporary shutdown], as we weighed the cost of our overall portfolio and strategic focus, we've made the decision not to relaunch the service."
I have played around with a simulator for this. Wind and solar is so much cheaper than nuclear power that you can simple build a lot of overcapacity to deal with much of the storage issue. Wind almost never go to zero during a year.

For the rest of the time you just use gas power plants. According to my calculations I could get lower kWh price than with nuclear and only provide 10-20% of the power from natural gas.

We can run on 10-20% natural gas for a while until we develop better storage.
But most of them have no critical impact on essential infrastructures. Eyeballs are always their for big projects.
Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead
Your 7-Eleven comparison is spot on!

I never understood the allure, especially in a city with so many other options. It was a reliable place to get in out of the cold during our trip to London.

My kids loved it, though ;)
Also, thought I should add that if it's your name on the door, this isn't much of a discussion.
Darknet Diaries just did an episode about how Wannacry disabled the NHS on episode 73. The episode was way more descriptive of how the attack affected functions of the hospital, but basically, there’s a lot of overhead. Suddenly, you have to check everyone in by hand, you don’t know who their normal doctor is, you can’t look up medication, ransomware might be affecting specialized computers for the medical equipment. Some hospitals were able to pivot to pen and paper and still treat patients, but the attack was basically like an accident on the freeway. It just jams everything up.
.io almost always shows AVL on GD and then when added to cart its often registered because the search for that one doesn't seem to connect properly to the actual registration process for .io

A 6 letter word that can be well branded and is immediately memorable? I would be more shocked if it were actually avl
J.K. Rowling Book Burning Videos Are Spreading Like Wildfire Across TikTok
There is definitely a very long, fat tail with scientific research. I think this one of the most under-appreciated aspects of science.

That and the countless unexpected insights and connections between seemingly unrelated pieces of knowledge that can happen long after an initial discovery.
he has a whole book of primary sources...https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Peoples-History-United-States/...
Zenhub[1] is a pretty popular UI on top of GitHub that fills that need quite nicely for my team

1 - https://app.zenhub.com/
I downgraded my account from a startup license to a personal a couple months ago. I went from never seeing any particular slowness in the app, to seeing a number of waiting on cloud function dialogs.

I bet all the personal licenses are running on a single cloud instance, while the paying users get reasonable response times.
You're right. I think my memory was domains where you wanted to prepay for "privacy", so the ownership didnt show during the xfer after the auction.
Obviously because it just works.
Hi, you can blame me for this. It's a Java compiler plugin[1], which is similar to an annotation processor, but can hook into the compiler at a much earlier stage, which allows it to contribute to all phases of the compiler, including the Parser phase. The Manifold plugin takes full advantage of this, hence its ability to analyze comments, contribute to bytecode generation, etc.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/jdk/api/javac/tree/com...
Pretty moribund. They got dropped by Mozilla so it's entirely community-driven, and there's only so many things you need to add to an email client, unless you want it to turn into emacs or something.

That said it's a damn good product that's damn good at what it does.
Intel’s Tiger Lake 11th Gen Core I7-1185G7 Review and Deep Dive
You build it on SMTP because upgrading clients is easier than doing a clean slate redesign of ubiquitous internet protocols.

Presumably we're discussing how an open protocol addition might gain any traction at all over walled garden protocols like Slack -- and in those cases you want to maintain as much compatibility as possible.

"Federated SecureEmail 2.0" would be dead-on-arrival, where "Secure Client on top of bog-standard email" is ever so slightly less DOA. You get to re-use the existing identity/routing system, existing servers, existing authorization, etc.
Maybe you can get some kind of settlement when it inevitably blows up.
A platform has APIs. Who said an OS should use "open" graphics APIs?

The whole point of having an OS is that it's different than another OS. If all OSes just used the same APIs (filesystems, graphics, sound, etc) we'd just have one OS.

That's something shared by unices and Linux follows course, but it's not the idea behind (or the ideal of) other OSes.

And I don't want a world where there's a single set of APIs for all OSes, and all OSes give the same core functionality in the same implementation (e.g. Vulcan + OpenAL + POSIX + ...).

Having all OSes be that (e.g. all use Vulcan), would be the same situation as everybody using DirectX (innovation wise), the only exception being that Vulcan is free/open.

But I don't want openess about all, I also want variety and different innovations, and platforms offering unique stuff...
Again.. hobbyists - but more to the point, it's perfectly possible to 'manually' do parametric constraints on moderately simple 2.5D geometries on the fly with a bit of logic using software that isn't necessarily built with that in mind. It's a cludge, sure, but if Fusion360 slows down 80% of your workflow where it's not doing much fancy, then that points to there being somewhere better, perhaps simpler, tools could be used.

-ed

Believe me - I wanted to like Fusion - I had the thing for a while and tried, but.. meh. It felt like a free product. At best.
Gaming GeForce cards don’t have FP64 silicon, and neither do the Quadros which use the same dies.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233

16 years and still pending! All bets are off for this dark horse
As an American, I've always been so confused by Pret's sandwiches. Specifically, how they're like 95% bread.

Seriously. You get their "famous ham and cheese" and it's a mini baguette with like a single layer of ham and cheese. Like the ham and cheese is a condiment, rather than filling.

It's a stretch to call what they sell "sandwiches". It's closer to just flavored bread. And remember -- it's not just sugar that increases the risk for diabetes, but massive amounts of processed carbs, exactly like Pret.

I'll take my corner deli please, where a sandwich is more like a balanced meal: an actual full serving of protein inside, with lots of tomatoes, peppers and lettuce too.
> As a PSA to everyone, you should only ever use whois in a terminal window to see if a domain is available.

A month or so ago, I discovered .wang was a TLD, and I immediately brought it up with friends, and we spent some time happily and goofily brainstorming. I'm not sure about the exact count, but after dozens of queries, whois started returning errors for too many requests.
I very sincerely and respectfully disagree. foldr’s comments here are very out of line. They are seeded comments copy/pasting the same smearing of Craig Murray’s alleged bias on every post about the Assange hearing.

It’s unconscionable to me that you would think the guidelines rule out my comment but wouldn’t find deep, inarguable cause for more concern over foldr’s comments.

I cannot see any way the account age or comment history bears relevance. Being a commonly-seen community member for years, then suddenly deciding to spam smear comments about Craig Murray’s alleged bias on posts about the Assange hearing still is quite flagrant.
The reason to avoid political discussions is that they're often as toxic as the worst sports arguments, not that the underlying topics don't matter. No matter how important the underlying issue is, having my coworkers call each other nasty names won't resolve it.
From OP:

> We need Howard Zinn now more than ever. Not for the sake of romance or to construct another hero in history. We need his insights, his politics, and his commitment to the struggle for a better world.

Unless your position is that there is such a thing as an unbiased history or that Zinn presented historical falsehoods (not a usual position even among Zinn's critiques), I don't think the valid points you raise on the 1619 project rebut the thesis of the OP.
Ephemeral perhaps, but for almost every issue, there was likely someone -- somewhere -- that would frame and keep it, because someone in their family got a mention, an interview, or an article published in the New York Times.
My read is that it's somehow the inverse of a flywheel. A flywheel means consistent output for variable input whereas this is consistent input leading to variable output.

Or maybe I'm way off.
A slightly more realistic "dead simple solution" might be for mail clients to extend their OpenPGP support to include Autocrypt[0] which would allow users to gain some of the advantages of OpenPGP without having to understand any of the details.

[0] https://autocrypt.org/
What is it, then?

Later edit: To add to my comment, what do you call sleeping in the same bed, eating from the same plate and having direct physical contact with a person who gets the virus and ends up in IC or dead while the other person tests negative for the virus?

Let's not forget that ever since February we've all known that this virus is particularly easy to transmit/get, so you cannot say "that person got really lucky, that's why he/she hasn't got it".
There's no "strictly speaking"s about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24066521
lol'ing ... your bots would think am mocking it... in fact it's sadness...
Y'all are not going to grok this, but time is not a dimension.
They should be able to distinguish between users who always play the same video in a loop vs. users who never watch anything twice (or anything intermediate between the two extremes) and adjust the recommendations based on that.

But maybe their recommendation engine is hyper-focused on the matrix-completion framework and doesn't use any information other than which users watched which videos.
A decent heuristic for whether or not a wireless module has been FCC certified is whether or not the RF components are under a metal shield:

If it doesn't have a shield, it's almost certainly not FCC certified.

If it does, it's more likely to be certified.
The famous "deep field" image from Hubble almost didn't happen, at least for many more years, due to limited time availability[0].

> “The telescope allocation committee would never have approved such a long, risky project,”

Other similar "high risk" experiments would be more likely to occur if time constraints were not such a concern.

[0]: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2015/04...
If the cable is longer than a few centimeters, the voltage makes sense.

rs232 can run quite long distances.
He's literally saying that he believes that American democracy is fundamentally flawed and that it can't be fixed, therefore necessitating a revolution.